Word: hankering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quilt: hard- line trade unionists and factory workers from groups like the United Worker's Front who oppose a "return to capitalism"; military officials angered by plans to convert defense factories to civilian use; entrenched party apparatchiks who fear the loss of position and privileges; and Russian nationalists who hanker after the Czarist past, many of them aligned with the reactionary Pamyat (Memory) movement. Whatever their ideological differences, the conservatives are united by a concern that the reforms are moving too fast and bringing in alien Western ideas that are pushing the country toward a social breakdown...
...harden her stance against the rebels, who have refused to discuss a cease-fire since Olalia's murder. Said the President: "We shall never be slaves again -- not to the Communists, who did nothing to help us recover our democracy, nor to the sad remnants of the right who hanker to be our masters again." In the next six weeks the President must continue to reassert her authority in a way that will satisfy the nation and dissipate the rebellious mood within the armed forces...
...landmark April 1 conversion of Japan's national telephone system from a state-run monopoly into a privately owned company. This will create a vast opening for makers of such sophisticated telecommunications gear as satellites and digital switches, together with services like electronic cash transfers. American companies hanker for the business and feel they can keep their prices competitive even with the strong dollar driving up the cost of their goods abroad...
...this of course could go poof in the wake of say a foreign policy disaster in Lebanon or Central America. But what really makes the professional handicappers hanker to place their bets on the Reagan Bush team is a campaign machine that is one of the best greased and best organized in history...
Successful at everything else he ever attempted, Gizzi was used to being frustrated in a Harvard uniform. Freshman year he split time at quarterback with Columbo, and the next fall, he was asked to switch to Hanker, because of the Crimson's depth behind the center Gizzi says he felt "lost in the shuffle...