Word: widens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev had died, for example, he exulted: "Good! Another revisionist less. Unfortunately, Khrushchevism does not die with him." A large...
Ever since he won last September's presidential election with just 36.3% of the vote in a three-way race, Salvador Allende Gossens has been anxious to widen his slim popular margin. Last April his Popular Unity coalition of Socialists, Communists and Radicals collected an impressive 50.8% of the vote in nationwide municipal elections, and he seemed well on the way. But last week, in a by-election in one of the largest of Chile's 29 congressional districts, Chile's Marxist President suffered an embarrassing setback...
Nixon's advisers and by Senator Edmund Muskie, who may submit his own tax-cut measure, including a big 14% investment tax credit. A tax easing, however, could widen the budget deficit. And unless a cut is coupled with wage and price guidelines, which the President has been determined to avoid, it could aggravate another major economic problem: inflation...
...moved into areas like aerospace and computers could not even form the necessary questions, let alone use the results, of advanced research. Hence the need for collaboration if art is not to remain in an inefficient relationship with technological culture. This was the rationale of "Art and Technology"-to widen artists' choices and enrich the vocabulary...
...very least, such a conference could readjust the values of major currencies in a noncrisis atmosphere. It could also make some important technical adjustments in money-trading rules. One might be to widen the fluctuations in currency prices that central banks can permit-perhaps a rise from the present 1% to 5% above or below official value. Flows of speculative money have become so large that the 1% limit has become unrealistic and a breeder of crises instead of a stabilizer...