Word: state-run
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these new advisers purportedly helped draft a secret memorandum last summer that became the blueprint for the January military crackdown in Lithuania. The classified memo surfaced in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a new liberal daily newspaper that has been tolerated despite the general ebbing of glasnost that has occurred in the state-run electronic media...
...move was initiated by Finance Minister and C.D.R. mentor Vaclav Klaus, who is overseeing the transition from a state-run economy to the free market. In October the outspoken Klaus won an upset victory as Forum chairman over Havel's chosen candidate. Many members of the loosely aligned Liberal Club are longtime associates of Havel's and opposed Klaus in that vote. "We have decided on a divorce, Czech-style," Klaus said, "between a majority that elected me ((chairman)) and a minority view...
...Egypt the wildest rumors have credence partly because few trust the state-run media. President Hosni Mubarak found it necessary to show himself in public to prove he had not been assassinated by pro-Iraqi zealots. A Turkish official said the government was withholding information about military plans in order to ensure its citizens' "peace of mind...
Disposition of the Cruzan case seems to have opened a Pandora's box of right-to-die and right-to-life cases, all putting painful ethical dilemmas before the courts. Three days after Cruzan's death, the state-run Missouri Rehabilitation Center blocked the attempt of St. Louis marketing consultant Pete Busalacchi to move his daughter Christine from Missouri, which severely restricts the disconnecting of feeding tubes from patients judged beyond recovery, to Minnesota, where rules are less strict. In June the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Missouri's right to require "clear and convincing evidence" of a patient's desire...
...proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful as it may be for the French to bear, their rock stars just don't have the same appeal as the British or the Americans. Claude Francois...