Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pinyin is a somewhat less cumbersome method of rendering Chinese words in alphabetic form than the traditional Wade-Giles system, which employs apostrophes and hyphens. Examples: Hua Guofeng instead of Hua Kuofeng; Deng Xiaoping instead of Teng Hsiao-p'ing. Initially, TIME plans to use the Pinyin spellings with the conventional Wade-Giles rendering in parentheses. There will be exceptions. Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong in Pinyin) and other familiar figures of history will not appear in their Pinyin form. Nor will such widely used place names as Peking (Beijing in Pinyin), Canton (Guangzhou), Tibet (Xizang) or Hong Kong...
...America. For every $1 that the U.S. contributes to international financial institutions that give aid, the recipients spend $2 to buy goods and services in the U.S. For every $1 paid by the U.S. into the World Bank alone, $9.50 flows into the nation's economy in the form of procurement contracts, operations expenditures and interest payments to investors in the bank's bonds...
...symphony's general manager, Thomas W. Morris, 35, had been invited by Peking to visit next December, but when normalization came, they asked to push the tour date forward. The Chinese agreed. They were especially interested in Ozawa's offer to provide some coaching in the form of master classes...
...years ago. If Maui in the past century was ravaged by diseases brought in by outsiders, the island today is in the throes of a more benign importation. It could be called condo fever. Symptoms:-More than 1,000 people gathered at Kapalua last July to engage in a form of real estate roulette. The names of "registered" prospective buyers of condominiums were spun in a revolving cage to decide which 134 lucky ones would get the chance to shell out an average $205,000 each for unbuilt one-or two-bedroom town-house units on leasehold land, with projected...
Thus Bukovsky exploited the rivalries and hidden disputes among the KGB, prison administrations, schools of psychiatry and political commissars. Legal affronteries never won him liberty but a different form of freedom: the ability to choose jail over silence. His life as a moral goad was organized around the harsh facts of imprisonment. "Every time I was released," he writes, "my only thought was how to get as much done as possible, so that afterward, back in prison again. I wouldn't have to spend sleepless nights dwelling on lost opportunities...