Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...demands of both subgroups were rejected by the Moldavian parliament, itself locked in a separatist struggle with the central Soviet government. The republic of 4.3 million, 65% of whom are native Moldavians, was historically a province of Romania but was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Last June Moldavia declared its sovereignty; two months later the popularly elected parliament renamed the republic Moldova, adopted a flag similar to Romania's and declared Moldavian the official language...
...rush of prosperity spawned entirely new political forces as the expectations of the formerly destitute rose along with their incomes. The Hindu nationalists have managed to ride that social wave, as have parties and movements representing untouchables, farmers and groups like the Yadavs, a low-caste group in north central India. Says Mulayam Singh Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and himself a Yadav: "Before, democracy was only for the powerful. But now real democracy has arrived." Observes a senior government economist: "The poor are organizing themselves as Muslims, as ((ethnic)) Jats, and so on. They want...
...thinking when that first popped out," Paul Simon says, sitting in the living room of his Manhattan duplex, watching an early moon come up over Central Park. " 'The cross is in the ball park.' The first thing I thought of was Billy Graham, or the Pope, or evangelical gatherings. But I came to feel what that's really about is the cross that we bear. The burdens that we carry are doable, they're in the ball park...
...Weiler said that while increasing central power will bring "new dynamism to economic and monetary union," it will also bring trouble...
Weiler predicted that courts in the member nations would challenge the community's central authority. And he said more European unity will mean more ideological clashes, especially since European nationalism is on the rise...