Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very effusiveness of the praise showered on Bush showed how much the West has been hungering for the leadership that only a U.S. President can provide. For the first time, Bush indicated that he could satisfy that hunger. Nor was his triumph just a public relations coup. It may really open the door to the most significant arms reductions since the end of World War II. Then Europe, East and West, may finally be able to give its full attention to creating a stable, open and unified continent...
...left even middle-class citizens unable to afford food and other necessities. Inflation for the month of May reached 75%, and is accelerating at a pace that would amount to more than 80,000% for the year. Said David Feldman, news director of Radio Rosario: "It's not just hunger. People are crazed. There is extreme tension here...
...great philosopher Lao Tze said two milennia ago, "The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to try to frighten them with death?" Even those Chinese who would prefer to be apolitical were touched by the hunger strikers. One million people gathered for days and nights in front of the Forbidden City, defying and challenging the reluctant, if not entirely untouchable, authority...
...struggle, remained out of sight even longer. During this period of uncertainty, solid information was the scarcest of commodities in China, and wild rumors abounded. There were even reports that Deng was fleeing into retirement in the U.S. Protesters in Shanghai, Xian and Lanzhou staged memorial services for Beijing hunger strikers, although none had died. "People are learning about major government changes and about the biggest student movement in China's history from Popsicle sellers and newspaper dealers," said Zhang Weiguo, a reporter on Shanghai's World Economic Herald. "This is not a way to inform the people...
When three top party officials visited a hospitalized hunger striker, the angry student declared, "If you really wish to re-establish the Communist Party's prestige, you must first excise the official profiteers." Many Chinese courts have been trying to do just that. The judicial system handled 37,000 cases of profiteering last year, up 50% from 1987. More than 100 embezzlers and bribe takers were sentenced to death or life imprisonment...