Word: citings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Guangdong, where Deng's injunction to "seek truth from facts" has led provincial officials to cite "unique local conditions" as a way of drifting as far from Communism as Beijing can tolerate, Wu's village represents the opposite tendency. In many ways it is still a collectivist town. The village employs doctors and covers all medical costs -- a practice $ no longer common in China, where many must pay for health care out of their own pockets. Land is privately owned, but much of its cultivation is accomplished by group effort...
College administrators vehemently reject that accusation. Increasing tuition charges, they say, merely reflect their own increasing expenses. In particular, they cite soaring costs for building construction and maintenance; salary-inflating battles to woo and keep top-flight faculty members, especially in science and business; and the dizzying price of keeping up with technology, ranging from computerized card catalogs to the latest in lab paraphernalia. Hardware and faculty often go hand in hand: when Duke lured physicist John Madey away from Stanford, it promised to build a lab for his free-electron laser research. Cost: $5 million...
...found "foreign material" in the key gun barrel. The admirals theorized that a detonator had been placed between powder bags and that someone had rammed the bags more tightly than normal. Hartwig was, the Navy said, in the best position to direct this. The board did not cite a motive, and one of its members said it had "no hard evidence" to confirm reports that Hartwig may have been a homosexual who was distraught over the ending of a friendship with another sailor...
...claim that the U.S. "is the envy of the world" puzzled many prosperous West Europeans. Though still much admired, America, with its violent streets, racial tensions, drug addiction and homelessness, is no longer the beckoning place it once was. Says Jean Manuel Bourgois, vice president of Groupe de la Cite, France's second largest publishing house: "The magic of the American dream has gone. Today Europeans find less to envy in America...
...evidence of this impending rebirth of vigor and social activism, the authors point to a motley hodge-podge of completely unrelated events. They cite the politicization of comic strips like "Bloom County" and "Cathy." They herald the social conscience of Rain Man and the The Good Mother...