Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afraid that the current unrest may lead to a second Cultural Revolution? No, mostly because the first explosion was inspired and directed by the country's leader, Mao Zedong. "Today's protest is a genuine student movement, spontaneous, yet well disciplined," he says. "We do not feel threatened." In fact, Liu's son and daughter-in-law have gone to Tiananmen Square to show their solidarity with the protesters...
...processor Cray-3 contain four times as many central calculating units as the Cray-2 (an increase that more than quadruples its complexity), but it relies on an as-yet-unproved technological advance: replacing silicon chips with faster ones made of gallium arsenide. Add to Cray's headaches the fact that his new computer is so compact that assembly by hand is difficult. Before production could begin, he would have to endow robots with the manipulative skills of a jeweler or watchmaker...
...time, such a confrontation between power and protest would be extraordinary. In China, a nation whose tradition is suffused with respect for authority, last week's outpouring of discontent was nothing short of revolutionary. No major power in the postwar period has ever been so rudely shaken -- rocked, in fact, to its foundation -- by the dissent of its populace. Still, on the faces of the hunger strikers in Tiananmen Square and of their millions of supporters around the country, the message was clear: China had crossed a threshold into a new era, where the future was entirely and terrifyingly...
Much of the trauma comes from the fact that the benefits are rarely spread equitably. "There's a widespread feeling that Chinese society has become unjust," says Stanley Rosen, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. "The decisions as to who will do well seem arbitrary results of government policy." Entrepreneurs and party officials profit from the economic reforms, but office workers and intellectuals do not. So while an individual's expectations are conditioned by the prosperity he sees around him, that newfound affluence is cruelly out of reach for many. TV, with its ubiquitous images...
...tried to offer explanations for what has happened in these cases," says Barnard. "Some of these explanations have been very, very farcical." His efforts have been impeded by the fact that his subcommittee is not empowered to obtain confidential IRS documents without the consent of the concerned taxpayer. But although several taxpayers have given their consent in the current investigation, the Justice Department has blocked the subcommittee from getting the information it seeks...