Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China's economic work will be able to free itself from the age-old malady of seeking quick results. Instead it will base itself on actual economic conditions, putting the stress on practical results and step-by-step development." With these words, spoken before the standing committee of China's National People's Congress Feb. 28, Vice Premier Yao Yilin described a watershed decision by the country's economic planners. Specifically, Yao announced a drastic 13% cutback of the 1981 budget; capital construction, the hardest-hit sector, would be chopped almost in half. Peking, it appeared...
Describing his fifth-place finish as "pretty disappointing." Dixon said yesterday his blisters affected his training more than his running in the actual race. The junior held fifth position the whole race, but his highly respected finishing kick, which has become somewhat of a Dixonian trademark, never materialized...
...fear your editorial of Tuesday, January 24 ("Monitor the Cutbacks") relies too much on the rhetoric of the Reagan economic message and too little on the actual proposals. The proposals include...
...wooden tables, where they joined in macabre re-enactments of the crime. "We used two tables to simulate the bed," recalls Marian West, an administrative assistant for a community service program. Von Glahn, donning the bloodstained pajama top, played the doctor, as other jurors came at him with the actual gun. "We did it many, many times," said one. "It was Jean Harris' testimony that convicted her," said Marie Jackson, a clerical worker. "We tried it like it was told. We couldn't see how he could have come in back of her and gotten shot...
...simple scheme was made possible by taking advantage of the amount of time-usually three to five days in California-that it takes for a check that is cashed in one branch of a bank to "clear" or be debited against the funds on deposit in another branch. No actual cash is shuffled between branches in the balancing process. Instead, accounts are made to tally by a method of computerized ledger balancing known as a "branch settlement account," a technique used by banks everywhere...