Word: unrestful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clips of Bush and Dukakis trading jabs on the campaign trail, no fluffy features on roller- skating or baseball-card collectors. A typical show last week opened instead with a nearly 6-min. report on the upcoming election in Chile. That was followed by an examination of political unrest in Burma, which began in the leisurely tones of a travelogue: "Burma, a gentle land, devoutly Buddhist, dotted with the spires of golden pagodas, a place where time seems to be standing still...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan yesterday accused House Speaker Jim Wright of talking indiscreetly about U.S. intelligence secrets but stopped short of denying Wright's claim that the administration used the CIA to foment civil unrest in Nicaragua...
...guzzled soft drinks. As the afternoon sun beat down on the Baltic port, 3,000 men gathered to sing the Polish national anthem. Then the gates of the shipyard swung open and the throng poured into the streets, marking the beginning of the end of the worst labor unrest to shake Poland since...
...Baka, the Central Committee secretary responsible for economic affairs: "No agreements, no reconciliation, no discussions will help us unless we can achieve visible results in improving our economy." Given the pathetic state of Poland's economy, that will be a difficult task even without the drain of further labor unrest...
...paid (average income of manufacturing employees: $409 a month). Parts of this spartan work ethic, which enables South Korea to produce everything from steel to videocassette recorders at some of the world's lowest costs, are beginning to change. In recent months there has been a wave of labor unrest, much of it centered on winning higher wages. Even so, most economists expect South Korea's industrial machine to continue to grow, though at the slightly slower rate of 8.5% annually. The ultimate goal: to place South Korea, currently ranked around 15th among the world's most technologically advanced countries...