Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fresh popularity of earmarking shows that much has changed, and much has not, since ten years ago this week, when Californians endorsed the tax- slashing Proposition 13 and triggered a national tax revolt. Pollster Mervin Field has found that while opinion still runs against any general tax increase, 7 out of 10 Californians would support higher taxes for specific programs -- even efforts for the homeless. South Dakota's former Republican Governor William Janklow, a populist proponent of earmarking, explains, "People know that if they just trust the money to government, it's going to suck it up like an amoeba...
...Central Committee last week a set of reforms that would limit the terms of most officials (though not including himself) to ten years and institute secret ballots for legislative and party posts. His tentative steps in favor of private enterprise even provoked the Soviet Union's first tax revolt, when its national parliament showed for once that it could be more than a rubber stamp. That could make perestroika all the more endearing to Americans, who have a special affinity for revolutions that involve tax revolts. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65% of Americans said they thought superpower...
...image last week by quipping that Dukakis "has liberal dreams, but at this point a conservative set of numbers to pay for his dreams." While the label "fiscal conservative" might seem opprobrious to Jackson, it is a compliment in many places, including California, the cradle of the 1970s tax revolt...
...petition calling for his resignation to the five-member directorate of the contras. Bermudez's ties with Somoza's dreaded National Guard have long been a source of friction within the contras, and some observers speculated that Adolfo Calero, a member of the directorate, may have encouraged the guerrilla revolt...
Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who had feared that the workers' revolt was ill timed and had joined it only reluctantly, admitted that the finale amounted to a "step back." The government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced plans to speed up Poland's economic restructuring program. But in the sullen aftermath of the country's crushed labor rebellion, few expected the measures to make much difference...