Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even when they do not hold high office, the relatives of China's elite enjoy lives of privilege. Known as the taizi pai, or the princes' faction, they attend the best schools, get the best jobs, live in luxury apartments and drive Mercedes-Benz to shop in special stores. Such advantages naturally gall the less favored. "Why him and not me?" asks a party official who was recently leapfrogged by a young taizi pai colleague. "You ponder the question, and the answer is nepotism...
Horner said last night that Wilson will attend this afternoon's press conference...
...years Suzman, a former university lecturer in economic history, was the only liberal opposition member of the house, making her the Progressive Party's spokeswoman. She slashed at purveyors of apartheid, once advising government ministers that they could learn something about their country if they would attend a funeral in a black township, "heavily disguised, of course, as human beings." But she opposed foreign economic sanctions against South Africa, arguing that they hurt blacks and drive whites into a siege mentality...
...trying to do more outside of the sports department, I began to attend news meetings, and tried to be more cognizant of what besides sports happens on the newspaper. There was a story posing as a tribute to Black History Month last year which had a one-sided view saying that Africa had contributed nothing to world history. I was upset. Friends asked me how I could work on a paper which produced such a story...
...Council Services committee meeting, I was reported to have said that all "ROTC students are economically disadvantaged." In fact, this view was expressed by someone else at the meeting, and is a blanket statement with which I cannot concur. Certainly, there are students in ROTC who cannot afford to attend Harvard without scholarships the program provides them. It was to help these students, some of whom receive smaller scholarships than they otherwise could and undergo great hardships as a result, as well as those who cannot afford to attend Harvard at all due to our present policies, that...