Word: harde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Widener Library officials are careful to say that they stopped adding to the collection in the 1970s. They stress that if they had the money, they would re-catalogue the works. But, as Warren Bibliographer F. Nathaniel Bunker says, "It's hard to get enough money to catalogue the books we are acquiring...
...declared, receiving -- as if to underscore his legitimacy -- a covey of newly arrived ambassadors. The Premier declared that the soldiers would move into Beijing as soon as the city's residents understood the need to restore order. From all available signs, Deng Xiaoping had cast his lot with the hard- line faction headed by Li. The losers were a more reformist group led by party chief Zhao Ziyang. Diplomatic sources said that Zhao had been stripped of his power, although perhaps not his title, and put under house arrest for daring to challenge the paramount authority of Deng...
Though the leaders of the P.L.A. initially seemed torn by the crisis, by week's end most active generals had sided with the hard-liners, out of personal loyalty to Deng and concern for the restoration of order. But a question arose: Could the troops impose martial law without spilling the blood of hundreds and perhaps thousands of fellow Chinese, thereby giving the lie to the army's proud claim to be one with the people...
...considerable risk to their careers, 500 intellectuals, including Ba Jin, China's best-known writer, signed a letter denouncing Li and urging an end to press censorship. Until the hard-line faction emerged victorious, China's official press and television reported with neutral accuracy on the pro- democracy demonstrations. By contrast, last Friday's prime-time TV news was constricted to official statements of support for martial...
...Other people gave up," Ford says of his hard-won acting eminence. "I don't give up. That's all." A good man to make a movie with, if you're Lucas and Spielberg and Connery. A great quartet of storytellers to watch riding off into the everlasting sunset at the end of Indiana Jones' last and best crusade...