Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zhao Ziyang, the moderate Communist Party chief, was stripped of his post late last month in a confrontation with Li, President Yang Shangkun and Deng, the conservatives who ordered the army action...
...answers. My action was cheap, rude and unprovoked. I had no real criticism of Bok; it was merely a drunken attack upon authority. I resolved to give Bok a chance...
BUSINESS: The Bush Administration names Japan to a hit list of unfair traders and threatens retaliatory action...
With protectionist fever rising on Capitol Hill, the U.S. strikes out against Japanese trade barriers, but critics fear that tough action may rupture relations with a critical ally. -- While most Americans think Tokyo's trading manners are still one-sided, the Japanese argue that they have come a long way from their closed-door past. -- A small Arkansas town welcomes the Japanese invasion...
...Foley's press secretary for many years. "He's progun." He is also pro-Congress, untiring in his defense of the institution and particularly the House, which he feels "is like the people, both good and bad -- just as it was intended to be." He accepts contributions from political- action committees; ranks high in honorariums received; favored the 51% pay raise for Congress, judges and top Administration officials; and can be blunt with hecklers...