Word: undo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politicians on the right to pump up the economy more before the elections. Last week he presented to the French National Assembly a 1978 budget that provides only a modest $1.8 billion deficit. Says Barre: "We are engaged in a long-term battle. This is not the moment to undo what we have achieved." He is getting help from a most unexpected source: the labor unions. Though many are led by the Socialists or Communists, the unions have been more docile this year than at any time in recent memory. Reason: they do not want to arouse public hostility against...
Representatives of 35 nations gathered in Finland more than two years ago to sign a document that unexpectedly ignited human hopes across the Continent. But human rights activism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe sparked by the Helsinki accord threatened to undo years of work toward East-West detente. Thus when a svelte Swedish woman delegate, two priests from the Vatican, a mustachioed Spaniard and some 400 other delegates to the Belgrade meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation congregated in the corridors of starkly modern Sava Conference Center last week, much more was involved than a club...
...think so. In retrospect, I know the three of us, plus the Vice President, who meets with us on all occasions -none of us would undo what we had done, nor would we have approached the issue in a more timid fashion...
...Chairman until the early 1960s, Teng disagreed with Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, which marked a disastrous setback for China, particularly in agriculture. In the Leap's aftermath, Teng, who was then general secretary of the Party, introduced a gradualist agricultural reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long...
Bicyclists, oil up your gears, smear on the tanning cream and undo those 20-lb. unbreakable locks...