Word: suppressive
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...more serious danger is that the country may slide into anarchy. Government forces have been barely able to suppress uprisings by rebellious Turkoman and Kurdish tribesmen in the northern provinces. Although petroleum production rose above 4 million bbl. a day last week, the oilfields around Ahwaz are still largely in the hands of dissident workers' councils, which have held numerous sit-ins to protest low wages and poor working conditions. Some 3.5 million Iranians (one-third of the work force) are unemployed; thousands of them milled around the ministry of labor in Tehran last week, demonstrating for jobs. Meanwhile...
Public knowledge is clearly protected by the First Amendment. Any attempt to suppress it is nothing but a crude, and ultimately hopeless, attempt at official censorship...
...most of the boom is in music. Last year there were 6,000 applications for 150 places at the Shanghai Conservatory. Says Tang Xuchen, 72, deputy director of the conservatory: "There is something that foreigners do not understand. Children were taught in secret, and anyway, the more you suppress a people, the stronger they become." Tang would like to take in more students, but the shabby facilities will not yet allow...
...personal success. When I began I had never before backpacked more than three days at a stretch. Likewise, I had never been as strong physically, or as comfortable with the equipment strapped on my back or as confident in the ability of one part of my mind to suppress the fear and panic that could crop up in its other parts...
...millions of dollars. To angry opposition members of Parliament, the judge's ouster amounted to an attempted cover-up of Pretoria's "Watergate." In protest, they refused to accept appointments to a special bipartisan investigative body. Indeed, there is intense pressure on Botha within his own party not to suppress such evidence...