Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Department of Education. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Carter proposed a Cabinet-level Department of Education, arguing that schools would then get more attention than they do from the huge bureaucracy of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Opposed by both liberals and conservatives, the bill died in committee...
Inspired by its success with Kwon, the South Korean government has issued a price list for defectors from the North: from $10,300 for a private to $103,000 for a general. Those who bring military hardware along with them qualify for huge bonuses: Seoul offers $5.7 million for a North Korean warship and $1 million for an aircraft, but only $60 for a carbine. On top of the bonuses, Seoul promises to take care of defectors for the rest of their lives...
...survived to see his once scorned pragmatic economic program adopted as state policy. At the same time, thousands of provincial party leaders have been purged as co-conspirators of the Gang of Four, and Teng loyalists who had been ousted by the gang have been rehabilitated. In one huge demonstration in Shensi province last month, 741 people who had been branded by the radicals as a "black den of spies" were welcomed back to the party fold. Two weeks ago Teng stage-managed the removal of Tseng Shao-shan as first party secretary of industrial Liaoning province in northeastern China...
...Each begins like an opera, with an enticing overture leading ineluctably on toward the major arias. Because they lack space for pasturage, the central Chinese south of the Yellow River do not eat much beef or lamb. Most specialties are based on chicken, duck, pork, bountiful vegetables and a huge variety of fresh-and saltwater fish and shellfish. It is basically a cuisine of survival, in which every last conceivably usable ingredient goes into the pot. How about smoked ducks' tongues? Fish eyes and spiced chicken feet? Wine-braised camel's hump, a delicacy of the Manchu emperors...
...which was largely destroyed hi 1860 by Britain's Lord Elgin, son of the seigneur who took the marbles from the Parthenon. Rebuilt hi 1888 by the dotty Dowager Empress Tz'u Hsi, diverting funds allotted for naval construction, the imperial plaisanterie occupies 700 acres and attracts huge numbers of Chinese rubbernecks. And then there are the Ming Tombs and, a few hours away, the Great Wall. Otherwise the city is nondescript and marred by Stalinoid architecture...