Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon, though, students' concerns will no longer preoccupy the dean. When Professor of Law Robert C. Clark assumes his post next month, Vorenberg and his wife Betty will travel to Indonesia and India, and possibly China...
Allen says that one reason the investigationproceedings seem to take so long is because thecommission is required to keep their proceedingsprivate. She admitted, however, that theinvestigation is taking longer than usual...
Pauley also says she thinks working parenthood is no longer solely a feminist issue, but one that concerns all segments of society...
Fears that the U.S. has lost its competitive edge go hand in hand with the uneasy feeling that America's standing as the leader of the free world has slipped. "America is scared to death of not being No. 1 any longer," says a foreign banker in Japan. Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University, talks of the "diminished-giant syndrome." A committed free trader, Bhagwati warns that the impulse of declining empires is to throw around their diluted power with such potentially self-damaging measures as trade barriers...
...least, there was little in the way of solid analysis. After declaring martial law on nationwide TV, Premier Li Peng was not seen in public for five days; Deng Xiaoping and party leader Zhao Ziyang, the other key players in the power struggle, remained out of sight even longer. During this period of uncertainty, solid information was the scarcest of commodities in China, and wild rumors abounded. There were even reports that Deng was fleeing into retirement in the U.S. Protesters in Shanghai, Xian and Lanzhou staged memorial services for Beijing hunger strikers, although none had died. "People are learning...