Word: modicum
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...case of South Africa combines aspects of a democratic and an authoritarian state. The vast majority of the population is disenfranchised, but whites enjoy parliamentary government and a modicum of rights. How can we tell how sanctions might work in such a situation...
Last November New Yorkers turned to Dinkins in the hope that the cautious and gentle veteran clubhouse politician would heal the rifts among them and offer a modicum of racial peace. "A Gorgeous Mosaic" became the 63-year-old grandfather's metaphor for his divided city, and he pulled together an ethnically diverse electorate to become New York's first black mayor by a narrow margin. Dinkins has named more minorities to top-level staff positions than any mayor before him and has drawn on a national pool of talent to fill posts in his administration. With little fanfare...
...offering lifetime posts. Fortunately, there is a solution to Harvard's faculty woes that would remove disincentives to innovation, restore discipline and accountability to the Faculty, clean out academic deadwood in senior faculty ranks and eliminate barriers to young scholars, all while protecting academic freedom and providing a modicum of job security...
...arrest seemed to signal that the government is determined to resist demands that limits on Turkish civil rights be restored. But it also showed how the government had been pushed by the crowds to cut ties with its past and how it was forced to scramble to maintain a modicum of support. After all, it was the same Petar Mladenov who lavished praise on Zhirkov for "his long and loyal service" when the veteran leader was eased from office only ten weeks...
...moment their prime target is the hated Zhivkov, who is widely accused of arrogance, corruption and a czarlike accumulation of personal wealth. Said Slavcho Trenski, a Central Committee member: "Bulgaria became a hunting reserve for the President." Communist leaders may buy time and cheer hearts with a modicum of reform, but it is all too possible that they also could be surprised by the chain reaction that arises from the very exhilaration of new freedoms...