Word: somsak
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...escalated to rock throwing. But in October, amid the threat of massive demonstrations, the Thai Prime Minister rescinded a fuel-tax increase that the government had adopted just three days earlier to satisfy an IMF-mandated budget surplus. "There is no long-term solution for the common people," laments Somsak Kosaisook, secretary-general of Thailand's public-employees union. "They have to bear all the hardships of higher prices and unemployment...
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