Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking vocabulary sounds unexpected--a national income tax, and incredible stress on incentive--but China's new course is not the "sudden shift" that some have labeled it. Faintly tinged with ideas tried after the great failure of the Great Leap Forward, it is more the culmination of post-Gang of Four policies than a clean, radical break with the past. More than anything, in fact, it is a symbol of Deng's new muscle--finally, he feels, he is powerful enough to do what he has always wanted...
Although this gang sounds like it belongs on a super heroes cartoon, it actually represents the line-up of this season's women's cross country squad, according to coach Robert "Pappy" Hunt, who is partial to nicknames and dubs each runner appropriately...
...Four Horsemen) and they move through every campaign in the Second World War--North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, and finally a mop-up of the Eastern Front--without a scratch. While the wetnose replacements who join them for each campaign get shot to pieces, Marvin and his gang survive with a magical invincibility...
...passengers were unharmed and the planes were allowed to return to the U.S.; the fate of passengers and planes in the last three was unresolved at week's end. The second seizure provided a clue to the common motivation, after a would-be member of the hijack gang was arrested at Key West and explained how they felt. "They were very despondent," said FBI Agent Bill Hayes, "mostly because they missed their families...
...Some 1,100 people crammed into the Park Avenue nightspot for a Carter-Mondale party for black delegates on the convention's opening night. The revelers managed to down 40 cases of white wine and dance until 4 a.m. to the blaring beat of Kool and the Gang. Along about 1 a.m., in trooped Teddy, 22, Eleanor, 19, and William Mondale, 18, who proved they could dance up a storm of their own. Mingling freely with the spirited crowd, the vice-presidential progeny also proved that, as one Regine staff member observed, they can make things "a bit difficult...