Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tumult in China can be used by both sides in the debate taking place in the Soviet Union. Reformers can draw the lesson that perestroika must be accompanied by glasnost and demokratizatsiya or sooner or later the people will take to the streets. The conservatives can argue that glasnost and demokratizatsiya unleash anarchy and are a threat to the powers that be, notably including the General Secretary of the party...
Some public school administrators are concerned, however, that the new technology will erode their control. Principals have little leverage over teachers who live hundreds of miles away and do not teach exclusively in one district. Adolescent daydreaming carries less of a penalty when students know they can view a lesson on tape. "We don't play the typical games," says David Benke, who teaches computer science to pupils from San Isidro, Texas, and Prescott, Iowa. "You've got to have a student who really wants to learn...
...cleaner" fashion, and last week told the city council, "While not a legal mistake, my decision to engage in outside employment was an error in judgment because of the possible perceptions it created; for that I accept responsibility. I assure you that this experience taught me a painful lesson. I am determined to learn from...
...indignity in search of her big chance. The greatest indignity of all, it generally turned out, was the chuckling condescension of her husband Ricky, played by her real-life husband and business partner Desi Arnaz. The confident king of the castle, he was always ready to teach Lucy a lesson. Looking back from an '80s perspective, some observers have suggested that Lucy was virtually an abused wife. In retrospect, Ball might have agreed. Certainly, she was bitter about the off- camera problems caused by Arnaz's drinking, philandering and intense workaholism...
...most important lesson of last week's events was the degree to which China has changed since the deaths of Zhou and Mao, the downfall of the Gang of Four and the emergence of Deng. Says Fang Lizhi: "At the time of Premier Zhou's death, the people liked him, but they thought of him as a good dictator. The people were still Marxists then." By contrast, continues Fang, who welcomes the transition, the people no longer speak of Marxism, and when | they venerate a man like Hu Yaobang, they are paying homage to him not as a benign dictator...