Word: jiangsu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China's bustling workplaces give further evidence that Deng Xiaoping's reforms are still on track -- and making headway. Western visitors to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, where free enterprise thrives in factories and shops, have found no retreat from the reforms. To emphasize that the political furor in Peking has left them largely unaffected, local officials cite a Chinese maxim: "The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away." Even in the capital the pace of change seems unabated. The Bank of China last week agreed to link its Great Wall credit card with New York-based MasterCard...
...Take bloc authority," Liao went on. "That meant the provincial governments did the trading and marketing. Villages in north Jiangsu, for example, raise tomatoes, so they need bamboo staves to make the wicker tepees that hold tomatoes up. Anhui [just across the border] had surplus bamboo. But tomato farmers in Jiangsu couldn't get any bamboo from Anhui because that crossed a provincial border. That's bloc authority...
...best, Dixon's careening style created Crimson spurts of eight or 10 straight points. But more than one Dixon pass fooled the intended receiver as much as the Jiangsu defense. Though Dixon showed the power to spark his team, he will need a little more control if Harvard is to succeed against the more competitive teams ahead on its schedule...
...year. Just recovering from a back strain suffered in a pick-up game earlier this fall. Trout made his first appearance eight minutes and 21 seconds into last night's exhibition. Trout took command right away, grabbing two rebounds and chalking up three points in less than two minutes. Jiangsu's 6-ft., 11-in. Lee Chonshan made no move to challenge Trout, and the shorter American college student taught the Chinese high school senior how to play the low post...
...Jiangsu's impotence wasn't helped by its travel plans. The team had crossed the continent in less than a week and a half, and last night's exhibition was the squad's ninth game in 11 days. Not only were the Chinese on their last legs, they were on the second-to-last leg of their trip. They close out their American tour tomorrow at Hofstra University in New York...