Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poland, privatization was a key ingredient of the shock plan that took effect last year when then Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government lifted price controls, cut off state subsidies and began to reform the banking and monetary systems. The government late last year began selling shares in five of the most successful companies: Exbud, a construction firm with 1989 sales of nearly $15 million, and four smaller profitable enterprises, including a cable manufacturer and a glass mill. Foreign investors will be prohibited from purchasing more than 10% of the shares, though they could ! petition the authorities for more...
...choreographer. Just before his first major premiere, he developed crippling back spasms; no one else knew his role. Graham solved the problem. Spying him in a cafeteria, she walked over and slapped his face hard. "You stand up there and go out and dance," she commanded. "It was the shock I needed," says Tetley...
...often been abandoned by their mother, tormented into quitting school and hounded from the work force. But life is not always much better in the U.S. When the fathers can be found, only about 2% show any interest, and the new arrivals are often overwhelmed by poverty and culture shock...
...most of them voted against giving George Bush a green light to start the war. Now they may be even more anxious than the Republicans to push new weapons. Contends Lawrence Korb, an Under Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration: "The Democrats on Capitol Hill are in shell shock. To stand up against the Patriot now would be unpatriotic...
...communists carried out their campaign in the old style, strong on meetings of party cadres but nearly invisible in the streets. By contrast, the Democrats, who took their campaign directly to the people even in remote towns, pledged to introduce privatization through shock therapy, breaking up the country's agricultural collectives and allowing immediate land sales. Industrial conglomerates would be cut up into smaller chunks that could be bought and sold, even by foreigners. Democratic party co-leader Gramoz Pasko promised that Albania would be the first Balkan country after Greece to join the European Community...