Word: fed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tiananmen Square massacre, he has recently shown an inclination to loosen some political controls. Explaining the government's sudden tolerance for newspaper and magazine articles challenging Beijing's policies, Liu Ji, a close Jiang adviser, says, "People want to air their opinions, as they are now well fed and better clothed and better educated. It is a sign of the nation's vigor and prosperity...
...worked. The easy explanation is that when it turned out the limo driver was drunk, the public's anger at the press declined. Yes, but the anger could then just have dissipated. The tabloids were not about to let that happen. Sensing a turn in public mood, they fed and amplified it mercilessly--and with such success that by the end of the week, on the eve of Diana's funeral, the mob roared and the Queen caved...
...which that can be done is deeply troubling. For some, it brings into question the very basis of democratic governance. Democracy, after all, assumes a people capable of independence of mind, of some intellectual and emotional resistance. One doubts the very existence of that capacity after witnessing a media-fed mass hysteria...
Sometimes she went too far, as children do, and we were fed up with her. Sometimes we felt that she was deceiving us. She doth protest too much, we occasionally thought, when she complained about the attentions of the paparazzi. When, after so many years of burning extravagant candles at both ends, she died at last so squalidly in that underpass, some of us for a moment thought, as the Friar thought about Romeo and Juliet, "These violent delights have violent ends...
...BONE For decades women who breast-fed their infants were urged to supplement their diet with calcium to protect against bone loss. A new study says they don't need...