Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese face the same difficulties that the Soviets have encountered in revitalizing inefficient urban industries. Under the terms of a restructuring plan unveiled in October 1984, government and party officials must relinquish any direct role in running enterprises, making factory management responsible for profits and losses. A study of large and medium-size urban enterprises published in the Guangming Daily revealed that only 15% of the managers believed they had been successful in carrying out the reforms. An additional 65% claimed that some change had taken place but more innovations were needed, and 20% admitted that their operations lacked economic...
Israel may be able to form an internal consensus to relinquish some authority over portions of Palestine now. This in a nut shell is the solution Peres discussed, and it would leave the Palestinians as partial partners in a state which, though not their own, would be more than they have...
...program, the notion of methodically asking people who were not individually suspect to submit to an intrusive procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared an "open season on black people...
...President's public support has been further eroded by her proposed land- reform measures, currently being debated in the legislature. The plans would redistribute an unspecified amount of acreage among the country's 8 million landless peasants. Landowners have vowed not to relinquish their farms, and peasant organizations say the measures are vague and likely to be watered down by the legislature, which includes many landowners...
Indeed, much of what the author finds in Central Australia is Greek to him. Descendants of the Lizard Man, the Bandicoot Man and the Perenty Man relinquish their secrets grudgingly. Strangers are usually given incomplete or false "dreamings." To sort them out, Chatwin attaches himself to an Australian-born son of Soviet immigrants who maps songlines in an attempt to preserve them from obliteration by mining companies and railroads. Arkady Volchok earned honors in history and philosophy from Adelaide University. He plays Bach on the harpsichord, speaks several aboriginal languages and holds the provocative opinion that his Slavic forebears make...