Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...King holiday. Backers are trying to organize another referendum; opponents vow they will start recall drives against legislators who vote pro-holiday. Meanwhile former Governor Evan Mecham, the man who rescinded the King holiday three years ago, has begun a boisterous fund-raising drive to keep the state calendar King-free...
...Observatory and Chinese Democracy," about this. You know, modern science was imported into China from the West. There were periods when we completely accepted modern science, and others when for decades we rejected it. Three centuries ago, we used modern astronomy for a short period to establish the Chinese calendar, but suddenly some emperor opposed it, and astronomers were even killed. Only at the beginning of this century did we completely accept modern science. It is the same with democracy. Sometimes we have been open and pro-democracy; sometimes for decades we have been completely closed and isolated and under...
First there were the magazines from East Germany. World Marxist Review and Radio Berlin magazine flooded my mailbox. Next a huge package arrived from Radio Beijing complete with expensive handmade origami cuttings depicting "friendship pandas," large banners with scenes from mainland China and a wall calendar that I think I saw recently in my local Chinese restaurant...
...requesting QSL cards when I was about 13, and the stations from Western democracies promptly stopped responding. But the stations from Communist nations knew they had a good thing going, and wouldn't stop writing. Up until last year, I still received my annual Bulgarian tassles and Chinese wall calendar...
...events on the calendar of perestroika had been invested with so much importance as the 28th Congress. It was supposed to mark the long-awaited - turning point, when reformers would finally seize control of party power from entrenched bureaucrats and release the brakes on radical change. Gorbachev would quit straddling the widening gap between the party's fractious wings and align himself once and for all with democratic liberals. There was also speculation that he might step down as General Secretary and devote full attention to his new presidential office, sealing the shift of power away from the party...