Word: powers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slipping out of control. Though the revolution in East Berlin continues to outrace changes in Prague, the dynamics of tumult are much the same in both countries. Besieged party leaders grant one desperate concession ) after another, hoping each move will quiet the mounting outcry and preserve some measure of power for themselves. The opposition's success begets bolder demands -- and party leaders capitulate, further diminishing the very authority they hope to maintain...
...from believing that their self-interest is the same as society's interest. The success in the intellectual climate of the 1980s of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty and Charles Murray's Losing Ground, two books which argue that helping the poor hurts everyone, bear testimony to the power of this sentiment...
...questions which remain in the minds of the audience constitute the power of the play. Angel City provides food for thought, and Kupferberg's production is worth seeing...
...activism continued almost until his death. On Tuesday, he engaged in an angry exchange with Gorbachev in the Parliament over the party's monopoly on political power...
Harvey G. Cox, Thomas professor of Divinity School professor and close friend of Martin-Baro speculates that the massacre may have been part of a larger power struggle...