Word: cosmopolitanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in Yangzhou, near Shanghai, Jiang was educated as an engineer. He was sent to train in Moscow during the same period as hard-line Premier Li Peng. Unusually cosmopolitan for a Chinese leader, Jiang speaks Russian and English and reads several other languages. He advanced steadily in the machine and electronics industries until the Cultural Revolution temporarily derailed his career. Rehabilitated, he used his back-room skills in carrying out post-Mao economic policy to earn him election in 1982 to the Central Committee...
...public education, geography has long been destiny. Crippled by limited staffs and tight budgets, rural districts have often found it impossible to offer courses such as Russian and physics that are considered standard by their more cosmopolitan counterparts. Now all that is changing, thanks to the arrival of the electronic classroom. By using interactive video, even small, disadvantaged schools are gaining access to the most sophisticated instruction available, and all without losing the human touch...
...future appears bright for schools like T.M.G. In 1990 Keio University of Tokyo plans to open Keio Gijuki New York Gakuin, a school for grades 9 through 12, on the campus of Manhattanville College, north of New York City. The setting will be more cosmopolitan than bucolic Sweetwater. But for students accustomed to the bustle of Tokyo, that should pose no problem...
...mobilize public support for Roe, pro-choice groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union expect to spend about $2.5 million through June on print and broadcast advertising. And at a meeting in March called by Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, the editors of 16 women's magazines agreed to step up their coverage of the abortion dispute. "I feel we're not holding our ground the way we should," says Brown...
Lebanon (pop. 3 million), once a lovely oasis of fine beaches, snowcapped mountains and cosmopolitan culture, may be in its death throes. Its brutal civil war, which began 14 years ago this week, shows no sign of ending. Since March 8 the heaviest bombardments in four years have killed 177 and wounded 591. Equally devastating, men, women and children are suffering mental breakdowns from the protracted, indiscriminate terror...