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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called traditionalists, among them durable Party Chief Georges Marchais, 64, who favor close ties to Moscow and oppose party reforms. On the other are the so-called modernists, including Marcel Rigout, 56, one of four Communist ministers in President François Mitterrand's Cabinet, who want to loosen ties with the Kremlin and open the party to greater internal democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Communist Party Divided | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Unlike Shamie, Richardson speaks slowly and quietly, sometimes with a cracking voice, and he often lacks Shamie's energy. Nonetheless, campaign aides say he is running a grueling 16-hour-a-day campaign schedule and is trying to loosen up his campaign style...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: One On One | 7/6/1984 | See Source »

...bill has drawn fire from a coalition of critics including evangelicals who say it would loosen the commonwealth's sexual mores and property owners who say the measure would infringe on their rights...

Author: By Laura E. Comez, | Title: Full Legislature to Debate Contested Gay Rights Bill | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

...Reagan Administration who is now a professor at Georgetown University. Supply-siders contend that the main factor propping up interest rates is the Federal Reserve's tight money policy. They argue that it was the Reserve Board that caused the recession and that if the 'Fed would loosen up, interest rates would come down and growth would stay strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Monster Deficit | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Efforts to loosen the rules concerning voter registration have not met with much success in recent years, despite the energy focused in the problem. "The decision-makers in the legislature are unwilling to open up the process because of political concerns," says David Sullivan, a Cambridge city councilor and Massachusetts election official. "They don't want to be responsible to a larger constituency...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Preaching to the Unconverted | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

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