Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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For three hours the crowd swelled with new arrivals: miners from Silesia wearing their traditional long black coats and plumed czaka, railway workers from Lublin, bus drivers from Pulawy. Hundreds of thousands strong, they spilled out into side streets, waiting patiently in the early twilight while the tender strains of...
A combination of factors, coalescing at an opportune moment, led to the Gdansk revolution. Among them: wide spread discontent with unsatisfactory living conditions, relative freedom (in a Communist state, that is) for dissenting political activists, the presence of able political organizers waiting in the wings to assume leadership, and a...
The two demands for guarantees of money in the amount of $23 billion presented the most difficulties, according to senior U.S. officials. For example, it was unclear what portion of the frozen $13 billion must be transferred to an escrow account in the Algerian Central Bank as a guarantee of...
Otto Eckstein argued that reducing outlays by the $30 billion to $50 billion that Reagan's advisers are recommending for fiscal 1981 would require a complete halt to any growth in nondefense spending. Since 1947, those politically popular expenditures-which include Social Security, aid to education, and employment training...
Such objections, however, are not likely to have any real impact on OPEC decisions. Much more important is the state of world petroleum markets, which are currently afloat in oil. Worldwide demand for the black gold was off by about 2 million bbl. a day in 1980. Some production has...