Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person eats too many saturated fats, however, liver cells suppress the production of LDL receptors. Cholesterol then collects in artery walls in plaques, the hallmark of atherosclerosis. Conversely, a low-cholesterol diet stimulates the output of new receptors, thereby preventing heart disease...
...R.S.C., Nunn, Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and other writers radically refashioned the text. The result is less French than English in tone and idiom, but that seems apt: Hugo's socialistic portraits of the downtrodden but unconquerable poor, and of the implacable forces of law that try to suppress them on behalf of men of property, could have echoed forth from British history as easily as French...
...occasion was plainly significant, both journalistically and diplomatically. "Even though he is far more subtle and forthcoming than other Soviet leaders, much of what Gorbachev said was self-serving and one-sided," Grunwald noted. "One had to suppress the instinct to argue with him. Nevertheless, the interview was exciting and revealing. It showed his state of mind and his manner of thinking. It is very important for Americans to know these things...
Most people feel gossip's special fascination "as horror or as attraction," observes the author. "Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears about it a faint flavor of the erotic . . . Surely everyone feels -- although some suppress -- the same prurient interest in others' privacies, what goes on behind closed doors." Novelist Margaret Drabble is brought on to elevate the tone: "Much fiction operates in the spirit of inspired gossip. It speculates on little evidence, inventing elaborate and artistic explanations of little incidents and overheard remarks that often leave the evidence far behind." In that observation lies the key to this...
British legal scholars say this power to suppress exists in a democratic society because Britain has no American-style bill of rights to guarantee basic liberties or the citizen's right to know. As a result, many Britons increasingly have come to fear that a government could use the Official Secrets Act to hide abuses of power. Last month the Thatcher government suffered an embarrassing defeat when Clive Ponting, 38, a former assistant secretary at the Ministry of Defense, was acquitted of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury that had been virtually instructed by the trial judge...