Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Over the past 30 years you've established a reputation as an almost professional refusenik yourself, and some would say an anti-American...
...leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment and replaced the portrait. The three best-known leaders of the protest, who proved to be almost as elusive as their political elders meeting in the western hills, are Guo Haifeng, 23, a graduate student in international politics at Peking University; Wang Dan, 20, a history major at Peking University; and Chai Ling, 23, a woman grad student in education at Beijing Normal University...
...problem is that Deng conceived of China's modernization almost exclusively in economic terms. His reforms unleashed long-suppressed entrepreneurial energies but at a cost of soaring inflation (30% annually) and unemployment. Meanwhile, some party officials began to talk of the unthinkable: political reform that would eradicate China's endemic corruption and loosen party strictures on freedom of speech and the press. Those nascent views were given their fullest expression in the slogans of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square. Some demonstrators even suggested that China should have a multiparty system...
...first, the leader of the Great Counterrevolution was Deng Xiaoping. He dismantled the vastly inefficient system of communes. Farms were turned over to families. The results were almost immediate -- and impressive. Grain output increased 44% over eight years. Soviet economists looked to China with envy and emulation. Kulaks -- rich peasants -- came back into fashion...
...Democratic leadership, House majority leader Tom Foley should emit that almost audible hum of ambition that can be heard at the upper reaches of political power. But no, not a sound. It took considerable pushing and prodding to get him to enter politics at all. And when he did jump ( in, it was "accidents," he insists, that kept advancing his career. "The important thing," he says, "is to be prepared when an opportunity comes your...