Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these events were not nearly as significant as the Chinese decision to join the rest of the world. The Peking People's Daily cheered on the modernization drive in evangelical rhythms: "The Chinese people's march toward the great goal of the Four Modernizations echoes from the foothills of the Yenshan Mountains to the shores of the Yellow Sea to all corners of the world and has aroused worldwide attention. We are setting out to conquer on our New Long March the mountains, seas, plains, oilfields and mines of our motherland. We want to scale the heights of science...
...result, the Chinese pool of scientists and engineers who kept up to date in their various fields grew perilously small. Teng's modernization drive now aims at rehabilitating scientists who were shunted to other work, at re-establishing research institutes and academies. According to one report, in Szechwan province alone 12,000 scientists and technicians have so far been returned to their old jobs from unrelated professions...
Question: What should a Government do when its economic policy seems likely to drive the nation into a recession...
Muppets live in suitcases, and Muppet people live out of suitcases. Jim Henson gave up the key of his rented Mulholland Drive hacienda, with its obligatory indoor-outdoor clover-leaf-shaped pool, and flew to Manhattan. There he rallied the support troops at HA! headquarters and conferred with his increasingly large staff of business people...
...made enough money to be able to drive his own Rolls-Royce to his college graduation, but he wasn't sure he wanted to remain a puppetmaster. He wandered off to Europe for several months, and there he met people who practiced puppeteering as an art. He returned to Washington certain of his direction. He and Jane were married a few months later, and both the marriage and the partnership prospered...