Word: li
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Li Yuwen '90, a 19 year-old from Shanghai, has similar doubts about the impartiality of American news. "The West has too much concern about the demonstrations themselves, and not full awareness of the possible consequences," he says...
...unwise to have such demonstrations because they do not have sufficient, if any, positive consequences to make up for their negative impact. These students are causing traffic breakdowns and social instability; they are responsible, indirectly, for the rise in crime rate in these cities," Li explains. "If public transportation breaks down as a result of the protesters' actions, people cannot go to work; they cannot go home; mothers cannot nurse their children. It disrupts society...
...earned them with a style of living, not playing. New York recalls the two A.B.A. titles he celebrated with the Nets, but Mississippi's Necaise Crossing remembers that he came to Wendell Ladner's funeral. The Net forward Ladner died in an off-season plane crash. He was a Li'l Abner from a piney-woods logging town, neither of them very easy for a black man to reach. But Erving got to Ladner, and he got to Necaise Crossing. "That was a memory, right there," he says with a distant look...
...Li'l Abner, the hero of Al Capp's comic strip, worked as a mattress tester, sleeping away his hours on the job. This soft life is not for Helen and Robert Yurs of Sycamore, Ill., who operate Rayco Engineering, probably the only consulting service that makes house calls to test bedding for structural defects...
...testers, mostly college students, earn at least $10 per call. Usually the problem can be easily remedied, perhaps by turning the mattress over or lubricating the box spring. After three years on the job, the Yurses earn $100,000 annually and are trying to recruit enough modern-day Li'l Abners to take the business nationwide...