Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University, which in recent years has featured Commencement speakers from nascent Third World democracies, such as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir P. Bhutto '73, is ruled by a seven-member, self-perpetuating clique called the Corporation...
...reforms unleashed long-suppressed entrepreneurial energies but at a cost of soaring inflation (30% annually) and unemployment. Meanwhile, some party officials began to talk of the unthinkable: political reform that would eradicate China's endemic corruption and loosen party strictures on freedom of speech and the press. Those nascent views were given their fullest expression in the slogans of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square. Some demonstrators even suggested that China should have a multiparty system...
...referendum passes this week, the Undergraduate Council can truly become the voice of student opinion. A "Yes" vote is a demand that the word "student" be put back into student government. At stake in the balloting is the direction of the council itself. Will it increasingly use its nascent political voice to represent student opinion or will it backslide into a stagnant pool of chocolate milk and malaise...
...nascent service-charge movement began with Congress, which started in 1982 to clamp down on one of the country's biggest tax dodges: the failure to report billions of dollars in tips. Laws now require restaurateurs to monitor waiters' tips for the Internal Revenue Service, as well as pay federal unemployment and Social Security taxes on such income. "It's a lot of extra work. We have to spend time keeping records because the Government doesn't want to," said Don O'Neill, the owner of the Spring House restaurant in Pittsford...
...coalition building dominated this weekend's network of minority conferences, then curriculum change provided the most immediate outlet for the nascent cooperative activism. While longer-ranging social change clearly occupied the minds of all delegates, immediate boosts in women and minority faculty recruitment and ethnic studies course offerings filled the agendas for all five minority groups. The capacity crowd in Paine Hall and the unanimity of support for the aims testify to the urgency of the demand, leaders...