Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid this purge, Jin Weiying, Deng's second wife (little is known of his first), divorced him and married his chief ideological accuser. Subjected to psychologically brutal criticism sessions, Deng recanted--but only to an extent. He refused to give up his support of Mao. "I cannot say more," he told his tormentors. "What I say is true." He said enough, however, to preserve his life. Soon he was able to rejoin...
...answer from TIME's experts was both yes and no. "The post-1982 American economy is significantly different from the pre-1982 one," said Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Since the bottom of the brutal 1982 recession, there have been but seven months of downturn. Previously, growth was interrupted on average every four years by long and deep recessions. Argued Hormats: "The business cycle hasn't been repealed, but volatility has been greatly reduced...
...economy "back from the lip of meltdown," said Courtis, is a study in contrasts. "The multinational manufacturers are today stronger than they've ever been," thanks to the weak yen (currently trading at 124 to the U.S. dollar). But "small and mid-sized Japan is going through a brutal rationalization." In four years, Courtis predicted, "we'll see 10% of GDP wiped out through liquidation of these companies." The big question is whether a new tax program announced by the government--equivalent to a whopping 2% of GDP--is too strong a medicine. If not, said Courtis...
...trademark, than it is to come seriously to grips with his astonishingly rangy body of work. Or even to catch it, since this Florida high school dropout, failed rocker and totally instinctive actor tends to work cult country, where a film's theatrical life-span can be nasty, brutal and short, but where these days the more interesting directors and writers hang...
...tens of thousands of Chinese gathered for several weeks in an outpouring of grief over the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. That gathering soon snowballed into a public protest against Mao and the Gang of Four, triggering a tough government crackdown. Thirteen years later, Deng ordered a far more brutal crackdown in April 1989 when students gathered in the vast public square to demand democratic reforms. On Thursday, the square was surprisingly calm and accessible to the public, reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz: "At dusk on Thursday, Tiananmen looked serene. The national flag was at half-mast, but everything...