Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suits, paraded across the television screen to show their grip on power late last week, the contradictions -- and the questions -- remained. For the time being, the old men seemed to be in control again. But for how long? If the Chinese were being cowed into submission, a long- standing compact between them and their government had been broken. Tiananmen Square and Beijing might belong to the P.L.A., but the struggle for control of China is far from over...
From the Baltic to the China Sea, people strain against the confines of the system, demanding a fair share in their own governance. -- Hard-liners take China's helm, but the old compact between the people and their leaders is shattered. -- Solidarity whips the Communist Party, causing a constitutional logjam. -- Wherever he turns, Gorbachev faces hard lessons and unhappy citizens...
...Karl Marx asserted that the political order of a country derives from the economic relations among its citizens (although Adam Smith had figured out the same thing in the previous century). The leaders of the Russian and Chinese revolutions imposed on the people a totalitarian form of the social compact: You give up your freedom, and we'll make sure you live decently. Bread was one of the most common words on the banners that the workers carried through the streets of Petrograd in 1917, and the promise of food was an important theme in the propaganda of the Communists...
...many central calculating units as the Cray-2 (an increase that more than quadruples its complexity), but it relies on an as-yet-unproved technological advance: replacing silicon chips with faster ones made of gallium arsenide. Add to Cray's headaches the fact that his new computer is so compact that assembly by hand is difficult. Before production could begin, he would have to endow robots with the manipulative skills of a jeweler or watchmaker...
This week the federal bankruptcy court will decide what to do next. Texas Air wants to shrink Eastern to compact size, linking about 60 cities with 130 jetliners, down from the 110 cities served by 250 planes before the strike began. Another option, an auction to sell off Eastern in pieces to the highest bidders, could draw such expansion-minded airlines as TWA, American and Delta. Adding to the suspense, sources close to Ueberroth say his game may still go into extra innings...