Word: hankering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Aquino why Filipinos hanker for another strongman so soon after Marcos' departure, and she demonstrates her tolerance: "The problem with some of our people is that they would like to have the best of both worlds. They would like me to have some dictatorial powers, with everybody else living under a democracy...
Economic instability in Argentina inevitably brings worries that the military, which ran the country with brutal inefficiency from 1976 to 1983, might hanker for another turn at power. Those fears were heightened last week when the army chief, General Isidro Caceres, warned that "the army is worried about the economic situation." For Menem, the best way to keep the soldiers at bay and serve out his full six-year term would be to set a course for economic stability and then hold firm to it. In Argentina that is no easy task...