Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Salinas has pledged to "modernize" the highly-centralized, corporatist political system in which the PRI has come to monopolize political control, he has yet to give any clear indication as to how he will open up the system to competitive party politics and insure that candidates for public office will be those who demonstrate broad popular support, rather than those who slavishly follow the dictates of the PRI hierarchy. As it now stands, the PRI fields the slate of candidates, meaning that those public officials who dare to buck the party establishment quickly find their careers in jeopardy...
...planting and harvesting, the autumn wine festivals in Burgundy, the pre-Lenten carnivals of Venice and Portugal, the Vienna winter balls. In most countries, while summer is reserved for rest and recreation, the main cultural and social season runs from fall to spring. Vienna's opera and symphony seasons open with daily performances in September and last until June, while La Scala in Milan runs from December through June. The London theater season offers some of its freshest performances and premieres in the fall and winter, as does the Paris Opera and Ballet...
...safe blood quickly to a patient. It is a form of autologous transfusion but with an important difference. Most hospitals try to reclaim part of the blood lost by a patient during surgery. When faced with gaping wounds that ooze large quantities of blood into body cavities -- as in open-heart or orthopedic surgery -- surgeons can reclaim half of it with suction devices, cleanse it in purifying machines and send it back into the patient. The rest is lost because it either spills out or is soaked up by the gauze sponges used to keep the operating field...
...frequently seem indifferent to the use of deadly force. On the other, the street-level drug trade is so lucrative that it seems worth killing for. In Washington law-enforcement officials attribute the mayhem to turf wars between rival dope gangs vying for shares of the city's wide-open, de-centralized crack market. The deadly competition in the two cities is made still more lethal by arsenals of sophisticated firearms smuggled from Virginia and other states with permissive gun laws...
...Transport is under contract to the U.N. to fly in maize from Uganda. The S.P.L.A. has vowed to shoot relief planes out of the sky. In October the first planeload of maize actually made it into Juba. Crewmen aboard the C-130 cargo plane peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This amount of food will feed only a fraction of those in need," said Gordon Wagner, the U.S. representative of OXFAM...