Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind. China's economic explosion has produced the inevitable side effects: income gaps, bankrupt state-owned enterprises and a surge in crime and corruption. Expectations among ordinary Chinese are rising in a way that could rapidly undermine faith in the party. Up to now Deng has provided an indomitable link between China's central and local governments, as well as between the party and the military. Now, as regions, especially in the booming south, taste the fruits of prosperity, they will be less inclined to hew unquestioningly to the centralized authority of Beijing. "Deng keeps everyone together," explains a Beijing...
Johnson said this would offer a link for a "more direct [police] response to situations" on campus...
With a history professor's sense of occasion, a futurist's grasp of possibilities and a politician's dexterity with symbols, Gingrich brought two gavels with him that day. The first -- a link to the past and a token of how long the G.O.P. had waited to regain power -- had belonged to Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, the last Republican Speaker, who relinquished it to the Democrats 40 years ago. The other, a jumbo mallet suggestive of Gingrich's power and willingness to use it, was donated by a fan. On opening day he favored...
...President Clinton returned to the White House to meet with the Republican congressional leadership. Both sides called the meeting constructive and said there were many issues they could probably agree on. The work, however, will clearly be in the details. A day later, Democrats said they would try to link passage of a G.O.P. balanced-budget amendment to the adoption of a highly specific plan for meeting the goal. Republicans promptly rejected the idea...
...that Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land after 22 years. The anti-choice movements has shifted gears; instead of trying to make abortion legal, they now are trying to make it inaccessible. As Operation Rescue's Randall Terry himself admits, "We've found the weak link is the doctor. We're going to expose them. We're going to humiliate them." Terry is the one who distributed old-style "Wanted" posters with Gunn's picture, home phone number and address. The posters read, "We need your help to stop Dr. David Gunn. "They...