Word: suppressant
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...song is Barbados Prime Minister Tom Adams, 53, whose 1979 decision to dispatch friendly troops to the nearby island-nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines moved one local songwriter to tuneful protest. Adams' aid to his neighbor enabled St. Vincent to send its own security force to suppress an uprising on outlying Union Island. Now, almost five years later, that Barbadian intervention still upsets many in the usually placid eastern Caribbean. Adams is sensitive about the matter too. Boots has been banned in Barbados...
...years at the head of the Soviet security and intelligence empire, Andropov transformed a demoralized organization into a thoroughly professional force capable not only of keeping order at home but of advancing Soviet interests abroad with growing sophistication. In contrast to predecessors who used mass terror to suppress dissent, Andropov employed a broad range of punishments selectively tailored for each nonconformist and effectively crushed the dissident movement, which he once dismissed as a "skillful propaganda invention...
Institutional as well as individual discoverers are the book's heroes. One sees again and again how the same institution would both foster and suppress discovery. For example, the medieval church advanced the development of clocks because monks' routine demanded bells to announce their hours of prayer, but it set back geography a thousand years because its interpretation of the Bible demanded a flat earth...
...tried to seize the Falkland Islands from British control. When the attempt failed, so did the dictatorship. Somewhat the same fate of internal overthrow is feared by the regimes of Syria and Jordan, and to maintain their positions they are expending much of their time and energy to suppress these fundamentalist sects. Israel can now reap the indirect reward, if it so desires...
...Harvard football Coach Joe Restic scans the page his brow furrows and then his eyes begin to glaze. As he reads and rereads the column of penciled in names. Restic can't suppress a smile the one you get when you've cursed the darkness long enough but you still don't have a match...