Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Fang Yi, Chi na's powerful but little-known Vice Premier and Minister of Science and Technology. The occasion was his announcement last year of China's audacious plan to overcome a lag of 15 to 20 years and by the year 2000 reach the scientific level of the advanced industrial world. Last week, while Teng Hsiao-p'ing politicked his way across the nation, Fang embarked on what was in effect his own separate tour of the U.S. technological landscape...
...Maonotony. "Vroom!" he cries. "It's the shock that will be interesting. Why should I copy Mao collars when what they want is dresses from Paris? The Chinese have lost their suspicion, and dream of giving their clothes a Western image that will set China at the level of other nations...
...That level already exists-at some altitudes. Cho Lin, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's wife, changed from one dazzling ensemble to another during her U.S. visit last week. Many Chinese panjandrums wear silken tunics that barely bow to Mao. Sumptuousness, after all, is not exactly new to the people who created such marvels as the Ming Tombs and the Forbidden City. After decades of isolation and unisex, it is not too surprising that the Chinese should again aspire to elegance, or seek it from Paris, where some of their leaders were educated. As for Cardin: "When...
...those names submitted to him by a committee of such notables as the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Librarian of Congress. To do away with the internal bickering, the PTT would also be deprived of the programming authority that the CPB now has. Programming on the national level would be the sole function of a new organization called the Program Services Endowment. The PBS would remain in place, and the individual stations would retain the right to originate material of their...
...drawing upon their inventories, but that cannot continue for long. Even if all of Iran's striking oilworkers were to go back to their jobs this week, it could take as long as six months to bring the country's production back to an acceptable level. Oilmen actually say that if shortages of gasoline and other refined products are to be prevented from developing later this spring, the Iranian fields must start coming back on stream in the next six to eight weeks-a highly questionable prospect, given the country's political situation...