Word: unrested
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...country's inflation rate from 15.5% a month in January to less than 1% in September. Luck, however, has not been on the government's side, and the recent plunge in the price of oil, Mexico's principal export, threatens to create a new financial crisis and political unrest...
After more than a month of political unrest that has brought their country to the brink of civil strife, many Yugoslavs had been counting on last week's meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee to shake up the national leadership and address the nation's economic miseries. What they got was a three-day Belgrade talkathon that accomplished little -- and may in fact have worsened the political crisis. The biggest loser, at least for the moment, was Slobodan Milosevic, the demagogic Serbian party leader and Yugoslavia's most charismatic politician since Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980. Afraid...
...virulence of the nationalist outbursts prompted authorities in Belgrade to put civil-defense units on a state of alert. More ominously, Yugoslav President Raif Dizdarevic warned on national television that further unrest could force him to adopt "extraordinary conditions," a euphemism, presumably, for emergency police powers...
EASY DOES IT, YOUNG MAN. Will Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, 68, eventually succeed Deng Xiaoping, 84, as China's leader? A recent spasm of economic unrest did not help his chances. Zhao reluctantly called for a slowdown in the pace of reform. But that decision is likely to slow his ascension. China's veteran military commanders will now wait to see if Zhao, once considered a shoo-in to succeed Deng, can put the economy back on course...
...feels bound by his principles. The way you tried to bust up that AFSCME union these past few months was, well, neat-o. It's not like they were a real union anyway. REAL unions--like the Teamsters--endorse real men, like me and Big Ron. Your labor unrest was caused by a bunch of uppity girls, and you sure have done your darndest to show them that secretaries are supposed to stay quiet unless they're answering the phone...