Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deng is obviously trying to ensure that his reforms will survive after he is gone. In recent months he has stressed to foreign visitors that his overtures to the West are a permanent feature of Chinese foreign policy, not a passing fad. But as the blitz of New Year's pronouncements indicated, Deng also feels that the attempt to bring reform to the cities needs a fresh personal push. That effort has brought him back into the limelight after two years of governing largely behind the scenes. The strategy may help attract public support and build a national consensus...
...that the Washington-backed rebel effort was more widespread than it was. The airborne handbooks, coated in plastic to make them water-resistant, were among 3,000 printed at CIA headquarters. But only a fraction were ever sent aloft, because the agency was short of money and the balloon blitz had no discernible effect on the Sandinistas...
Interested students at the Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government have contacted Abbasi about fund raising in cafeterias and dining halls at those graduate schools. The graduate school blitz will be before Christmas, the undergraduate organizers said...
...latest media blitz has brought the usual round of recriminations and half-baked relief efforts, but nothing in the current debate suggests that Africa and the West have come up with anything that will help Ethiopia and other afflicted countries in the long-term...
...IMPORTANT HEALTH WARNING TO WOMEN USING AN I.U.D., proclaim the austere but imposing ads currently appearing in newspapers and magazines. The $4 million media blitz by the pharmaceutical maker A.H. Robins of Richmond represents one of the most extensive product-warning campaigns in history. The company is attempting to alert women in the U.S. who are still using the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Produced from 1970 to 1974, the I.U.D.s have been blamed for thousands of cases of severe pelvic infections, sterility and other maladies. By last week at least 400 women had followed...