Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...thoroughly," says Rogelio Ramirez de la O, a private-sector economist. "That should be called 'the Gorbachev lesson.' " Unfazed by such criticism, Salinas argues that political and economic reform cannot be undertaken simultaneously. "Anyone who brings about changes over a wide number of fronts has to be able to control them," he says...
...Salinas' reforms continue to fail to touch ordinary lives, the President may find it difficult to maintain that control. He knows that to expand the pool of Mexicans who benefit from the country's economic development, he needs foreign investment -- and that depends on political stability...
...withdraws from Kuwait with his military intact. Yet the President has also compared Saddam to Hitler, who is identified in the public mind as a ruler so vicious that the only solution is to destroy him. Critics charge besides that any settlement permitting the Iraqi dictator to stay in control of an army equipped with chemical, biological and eventually perhaps nuclear weapons makes nearly impossible the restoration of stability and security in the gulf area -- a restoration that the President has declared is an important...
Four years after passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, the human flow it was intended to stanch is on the rise. This year an estimated 1 million foreigners will illegally enter the U.S., most of them across the Mexican border. The protesters, drawn by anger tinged with xenophobia, speak darkly of the immigrants. They reject the conventional wisdom that the aliens are benign job seekers who do work that Americans disdain and that generally benefits the U.S. economy. "We have nothing against Mexicans," says John Machan, a local courier. "Many of them are hard workers, and there should...
...country out of a feudal past, yet he is also pulling Mexico back to an era of paternalistic rule by an all-powerful caudillo. Behind the engaging grin, twinkling eyes and computer-like mind is a man obsessed with his public image. "He is fascinated with power and control," says a longtime acquaintance. "Whether it's politics or football, he wants to win every time. And if he doesn't, he can be very nasty...