Word: suppressants
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More dangerous than his jabs at Congressional democrats, however, is the assault on the very structure of American democracy implicit in Reagan's speech. Besides challenging the concept of separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. Reagan would suppress all public opposition to his policies for the sake of maintaining our credibility abroad. The President is right to underscore the potentially positive impact of outward unity in international negotiations, but he goes too far in asking for a blank check both from Congress and from the American public...
...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...
...criticism from consumer groups and politicians. In Congress, critics threatened legislation either to block the deal or at least to prevent any further oil mergers. Thundered Ohio Congressman John Seiberling, a Democrat: "It is time to send a message to the oil industry-unrestrained mergers between huge companies suppress competition, endanger our energy independence and threaten productive drive in this country...
...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...