Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party system. ((In the past)) the P.R.I. won presidential elections with two-thirds or four-fifths of the vote, all seats in the Chamber of Deputies, all seats in the Senate. Today we will enter a new era. ((We)) will have to reform our procedures of campaigning and organization, because we will face stiffer opposition. We'll have to live with a pluralistic Chamber of Deputies and Senate...
...resignations of Hiromasa Ezoe, chairman of Recruit's parent company, and Ko Morita, president of the leading financial daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun; who admitted that he too was a beneficiary. The biggest ; fallout for the L.D.P. could come later this summer in parliament, where Takeshita's proposal for tax reform is likely to face an emboldened opposition...
...ranks and vestments are intended to enhance morale in an army whose power and prestige have been diminished by Chinese leaders determined to de- emphasize military might in favor of agricultural and industrial reform. After consolidating his power in 1978, Deng Xiaoping used a mixture of cajolery, cash incentives and hard-knuckle politics to oust military officers from top provincial and party posts. Since 1985, 1 million men and women, including 455,000 officers, have been mustered out. Though still 3.5 million strong, the PLA has lost its position as the world's largest military organization to the 5.2 million...
...conference succeeded in making Gorbachev's modernization plans "irreversible" -- his stated goal -- there was little doubt that he dominated the event. The Soviet leader delivered three addresses, including a 3 1/2-hr. keynote speech and an impassioned follow-up talk starkly warning that socialism "will die unless we reform the political system." He also delivered the meeting's closing address, declaring that the conference had opened the way to "a democratic image of socialism...
...that were not enough, Gorbachev repeatedly interrupted other delegates as they spoke, usually to endorse their pro-reform assertions. The General Secretary even provided some moments of comic relief. After Politburo Member Alexander Yakovlev read a note asking delegates to refrain from delivering self-serving accounts of local party activities, Gorbachev leaned back in his chair and deadpanned, "That has the support of the conference, right...