Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improbable liberator for backward Burma, though perhaps born to the task. Her father was the national hero General Aung San, who led the struggle for independence from Britain only to be assassinated by a rival in July 1947, a mere six months before colonial rule ended. Until just over a year ago, Suu Kyi lived in England with her British husband Michael Aris and her two sons. Her return to Burma in April 1988 was a matter of happenstance: she came home to nurse her mother, who died last January. But the explosive antigovernment protests that gripped Burma swept...
...coalition of small nationalist groups has launched a campaign to register those who < lived in Estonia during its years of independence (1918 to 1940) and their descendants in order to convene an Estonian National Congress to discuss the fate of the nation. Organizers deny that they are creating a rival parliamentary body, but the fact that some 100,000 people have responded has caused concern within the ranks of the party and the Popular Front, and deepened the mistrust of the Russian minority...
...predictable -- but not too predictable. Lodge is a writer who seems to favor schematic setups precisely because they enable him to play sly variations on the formulas. Left-wing Robyn, for example, decries Vic's factory as a hellish model of capitalism in extremis and dismisses his maneuvers against rival companies as "a lot of little dogs squabbling over bones." Yet while tagging along to a trade show in Frankfurt, she can't resist helping him bring off a negotiating coup for a piece of automatic machinery that will replace several workers. Vic charges that Robyn's scholarly concerns have...
Perhaps Doi's most persistent problem is her unmarried state. Not only do rival politicians taunt her about her lack of a spouse, but the press continually asks her why. Doi, a confirmed feminist, says she simply has not found the right man. She has managed to convey a common touch through her love for pachinko, an extremely popular pinball-machine game, and her fondness for karaoke bars, where she sings along to Frank Sinatra...
...nation's first elected President since 1952, Jaruzelski called on the contingent of opposition Solidarity Deputies to share responsibility by joining the Communist Party in a coalition government. But first he must get his own allies in line. Without a rival candidate, Jaruzelski required only a simple majority to be elected, a sure thing if all 299 Deputies belonging to the Communist coalition threw their weight behind him. The final count showed that eleven Communist alliance Deputies had broken ranks and that the general owed his election to maneuvering by a handful of Solidarity deputies...