Word: technician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People just don't trust the government," said Schreiber, a dental technician from Staaken outside East Berlin. He and his wife and son had been waiting seven hours in the cold and had a long wait still...
...Krenz is the youngest member of the Politburo. He is also among the members most widely distrusted and reviled by citizens. Rumors circulate about both his drinking and his health. "This man is a technician of power, a man of the central party machine," said Fred Oldenburg, a senior analyst with the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne. East Germans mockingly call Krenz a "professional youth" because he has continued to dabble in youth affairs despite his age, organizing and attending rock concerts that are intended to pacify restless youngsters. A West German television crew, interviewing...
Once was bad enough, so when Houston school authorities this fall banned his two teenage sons from classes because of their long hair for the second time, Wilburn Wilkinson, 48, decided to go to court. The divorced electronics technician sued the Spring Branch (Texas) Independent School District, charging that Northbrook High School is discriminating against his sons Brian, 17, and Travis, 15, by enforcing a dress and appearance code that controls male -- but not female -- hair length...
...posts, making his disgrace more complete than that of his predecessor Hu Yaobang, who was allowed to remain on the Central Committee following unrest in 1987. Named new General Secretary was Jiang Zemin, 62, a member of the ruling Polituburo and party head of Shanghai. Though regarded as more technician than ideologue, he tends to side with the conservatives, who have clearly now consolidated their position...
...First Amendment decisions. By a vote of 6 to 3, it backed the right of communities to force public rock concerts to be less noisy. Justice Anthony Kennedy said officials at New York City's Central Park could require performers to use a sound system operated by a city technician following municipal guidelines. By another 6-to-3 vote, the court threw out a $97,500 judgment won by a rape victim against the Florida Star. The small, weekly Jacksonville paper had, contrary to state law, / published the victim's name after obtaining it from a public police report...