Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stages in building a Communist society and make China the economic equal of Britain within 15 years. Seeking to mobilize surplus rural labor for industrial tasks, Mao ordered half a billion peasants herded into huge communes. Economic planning was decentralized, as was industry. For example, despite their inefficiency, small iron smelters were constructed in backyards. The program had some successes: reservoirs, railways, hydroelectric plants and canals were built. Yet the Great Leap wasted enormous resources and disastrously lowered productivity, ushering in the harsh economic recession and poor agricultural yields of the early 1960s. Kremlin denunciation of the Leap...
After the junta's iron-fisted rule, Greece is now savoring the political and cultural freedoms of a revived democracy. But the new-found liberties, rather than mellowing the desire for retribution, seem to have inflamed it. Released from rigid censorship, almost every art form has been used to launch direct or indirect attacks on the junta...
Dance Explosion. The one person most responsible for the dance explosion in America is Nureyev, whose leap through the Iron Curtain 13 years ago triggered a potent curiosity about dance in the public psyche. George Balanchine, doyen of choreographers, pronounced Nureyev oldfashioned, and as usual he was right. For Nureyev immediately set about restoring the male to early 19th century heliocentric prominence. There was nothing middling about his spirit: he was a real-life Albrecht right out of Giselle with a rampaging case of the willies...
...when he jumped from Ford to Rheinstahl, a once profitable firm that had been driven into the red by severe cost problems. Schmücker lopped off unprofitable operations, turned the earnings slide around, then arranged for Rheinstahl's sale to the August Thyssen-Hütte AG iron and steel combine...
Only after removing several layers of skin did Horowitz squeeze out enough blood to make a sample. The analysis showed large amounts of iron--again, just what he expected. Horowitz prepared to leave...