Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fratricidal mayhem of the Cultural Revolution, Deng quietly laid Mao's legacy to rest following the Great Leader's death in 1976. Deng's "long march" was down the road to capitalism. And with 20 years of an astonishing average annual growth rate of close to 10 percent - over the last decade alone, China's GDP has increased by more than 300 percent - Deng's quiet revolution has transformed one of the world's poorest countries in 1949 into its seventh-largest economy 50 years later...
...Walking through Harvard Yard, religiosity pierces the sky with the steeple of Memorial Church. The politics, hermeneutics and iconography of religion recur endlessly in the coursebook and in our coursework. But more often than not, this is as close we come to spiritual awareness. Deep inside every Harvard students, there's a spiritual self-try to find...
...Bargain shoppers beware! Filene's Basement, which filed Chapter 11 last month, announced it would close 17 locations in under 132,480 minutes...
...like coming this close to your dreams, and then watch them brush past you like a stranger in a crowd," Burt Lancaster, as Graham, says of his moment in the majors...
This second part describes what kind of community the Houses are designed to achieve, i.e. a community composed of diverse people. By this definition, House community is a sentiment roughly akin to students feeling close to one another, as revealed by networks of friends within the House that transcend blocking groups...