Word: files
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christmas Day, 70 Africans sought -- and got -- police escorts to the Nanjing train station so they could file complaints with their respective embassies in Beijing. As they marched through the streets, the Africans rallied foreign students from campuses of other universities along the way. At the station, riot troops herded roughly 150 foreign students, including four Americans, onto buses and confined them in a hotel 50 miles away. At week's end they were being held incommunicado while diplomats negotiated with Beijing officials for their release. Meantime, some demonstrators demanded that provincial-government leaders "punish the ruffians to promote...
...performance in voting-rights cases that they concocted "coaching" memos that spelled out exactly which questions should be asked of exactly which witness in civil rights investigations. Only by boxing in the agents in that way could the lawyers be sure the FBI would gather the evidence needed to file discrimination suits...
...scourged by armies from Jordan to Israel but never destroyed. He has promised his people much but ! never delivered. In 1982 he was drummed out of Lebanon, and just a year ago he was all but ignored at an Arab summit that consigned the Palestinian problem to the dead file. Yet a combination of events and his uncanny talent for survival have pushed him back...
...shooting in early December, shortly after TIME made its pick. "To us, TIME's choice of Man of the Year is a compelling news story in its own right," says Jolna. "By the end of the first week, we had knocked off a dozen interviews and had begun amassing file footage that would help tell the story of the Man of the Year visually." Altogether, CNN shot 40 hours of videotape and planned to be editing the program right up to airtime...
...point is not lost on the rank and file. Jane Conrad, 45, a $14-an-hour GM press operator, missed out on a supervisor's job because she had not finished high school. So the mother of six enrolled in GM's Flint Township Learning Lab this year. Subjects included a thorough review of fractions, reading comprehension and English literature. Conrad, who received a high school diploma this past summer, is concerned about the increasing demands of automation at the plant. Says she: "If you don't have the basic training, some of it can be hard to keep...