Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Card Game. During the Central Committee's debate on economic policy, the extremists also won the day, though their plans are certain only to worsen the already chaotic situation. Echoing the hard-line view, Planning Minister Václav Hula denounced the decentralization reforms effected by Dubček's chief economist Ota Sik, who last week asked for political asylum in Switzerland. "The economic crisis," Hula declared, "can only be overcome by radical centralization. We shall have to reestablish party control over the upper echelons of industry...