Word: lins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maya Lin was living on New York City's Lower East Side when she received a call from a man in Louisiana in late February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet...
...told myself," Lin says, "that I was not going to design any more war memorials, but this wasn't that. The idea sounded interesting, and I told him that it would be fine to send me something...
...seven- year-old cellular-telephone business, controlling franchise areas with more than 50 million residents throughout 127 small and medium-size markets across the U.S. Last week the company sought to build up its metropolitan business by making a $5.9 billion bid for New York City's LIN Broadcasting, which reaches 18 million potential phone subscribers in such major cities as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas...
...Craig McCaw, the 39-year-old chairman of the company, which is based in Kirkland, Wash., the bid for LIN caps a stunning sprint of growth. Since 1973, McCaw has parlayed a backwater cable-TV franchise into a cellular firm with annual revenues of $311 million...
Much has been made of the differences between Mao and Deng. Mao was massive; Deng is diminutive. Mao was an ideologue; Deng is a pragmatist. But they have had one shared frustration: arranging an orderly succession. First Liu Shaoqi and then Lin Biao disappointed Mao; Hua Guofeng, his last designated successor, held power after the Chairman's death, from 1976 to 1978. In 1980 Deng put his approved team in place -- Hu Yaobang as party General Secretary and Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Seven years later, Hu was forced from power as a deviationist. Now Deng is purging Zhao and other...