Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, we who share a perhaps hopeless idealism, we who hold a perhaps naive belief in the power of democracy must firmly, resolutely oppose the suppression of human rights. We most follow our perhaps irrational faith that even if the trains do run on time. dictatorship is inherently evil and can never be tolerated. And especially such a murderous dictatorship as this one should be abhorred...
...think it's not the same everywhere? Of course it is. Corruption is endemic. It's bad in China, sure, but I still say the mainland people are like Chinese everywhere else in the world: turn 'em loose and they'll earn % trillions." A capitalist's faith expressed by a true capitalist. The speaker is Tommy Quan, 55, a millionaire Chinese American from Seattle known as the "orange king" of Guangdong's Taishan County...
...Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument down. No way. I am keeping the faith. Eventually, Zhao will be vindicated. There's no turning back over the long run. The emperors in Beijing won't change the label. They'll still call China Communist. They'll have to do that to keep themselves in power. But we're heading toward capitalism, no matter what they...
...future of our nation is infinitely brighter." Infinitely messier is closer to the mark today. The economy's course is uncertain. Provincial and municipal governments will surely pursue their own interests despite efforts to restrain them. The party, with its ideology bankrupt, offers only order and is begging for faith -- and not getting it. How long can a government like that retain control and stay in power? "A regime that . . . is forced to fire on the young, who protest in the name of liberty," said French President Francois Mitterrand after Tiananmen, "has no future...
Often I needed the reassurance of one anonymous woman writer who counseled her fellow Crimson editors. In response to a plaintive question--"Help me restore my faith in human-kind"--she had written, "First you have to restore faith in yourself...