Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even China's harshest critics doubt that Beijing would deliberately destroy Hong Kong, and most Hong Kong people expect life to go on much as before. "We'll do fine," says Francis Zimmern, patriarch of one of the colony's oldest families and former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as he lunches at the old-money Hong Kong Club. "In business I've dealt with China over 50 years, and I've never got a bad check. They've never gone back on an agreement...
China's leaders have been paralyzed by the conundrum of Shenyang. Failure to stop the spiraling losses of the state factories could destroy China's economic miracle, yet the cure is an exceedingly bitter one: the dismantling of the system that guaranteed workers lifelong employment and social benefits. Pushing ahead with reform depends on how much pain and suffering people will take before they resort to rebellion. In March, Finance Minister Liu Zhongli acknowledged that reform of the enterprises was "important for the destiny" of the nation, but President Jiang Zemin has been moving ahead very cautiously. He seems...
...treatment he offered--an intense chemical barrage with the same combination of powerful anti-HIV drugs that has given so many patients with advanced AIDS a new lease on life--would last six weeks and make the man very sick. But if it worked, the potent cocktail could destroy any viral particles that might have been transmitted and prevent a potentially fatal infection from taking hold...
...more bad news to come. Last month the FDA received a letter signed by several dozen neuroscientists blasting the agency for not opening up the post-approval monitoring process more fully. The FDA, these doctors charge, continues to ignore animal tests that suggest prolonged use of Redux can destroy nerve tissue. "Laboratories around the world have found that the drug has serious brain toxicity," says Dr. Mark Molliver of the Johns Hopkins Medical School. "It has the potential for producing brain damage...
...ignore the critics. Some precious few critics have an artist in them, but most are a desperate, shriveled lot who have found a way to touch art without making it. The half-nuts architect Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is confronted by the critic who tried to destroy him. "Why don't you tell me what you think of me," says the critic. To which Roark responds, "I don't think...