Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several of the East European scholars interviewed said that the current unrest in Poland poses a greater threat to the Soviet Bloc than the Czechoslovakia uprisings in 1968 and the revolt in Hungary in 1956, both of which brought Soviet intervention...
Taxes: Sons of Proposition 13. Ever since Californians voted to slash property taxes by 57% two years ago, Proposition 13 fever has been spreading across the country. This week tax-cutting measures appeared on ten state ballots. The tax revolt hit hardest in Massachusetts, a state that has long been dubbed Taxachusetts because of its high levies, including a property tax 70% higher than the national average. Bay Staters voted drastic relief in the form of Proposition 2½, which will limit a homeowner's property tax to 2.5% of the full market value, reduce the motor vehicle excise...
...sure, world events, real or promised, such as the Suez war and Hungarian revolt in 1956, and Henry Kissinger's "Peace is at hand" statement in 1972, have influenced voters on the eves of past elections. But neither of those was a close race, and never before has the decision on so emotional an issue as the hostages been so totally under the control of a foreign government...
Robert Kuttner, author of an evaluation of the tax revolt movement, agreed, saying, "The result would be simply too chaotic...
...talk at Leverett House, Ansara said that "this concentration is the determining factor in the politics of the period, including the upcoming election, and the recent "tax revolt...