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...Deng conceived of China's modernization almost exclusively in economic terms. His reforms unleashed long-suppressed entrepreneurial energies but at a cost of soaring inflation (30% annually) and unemployment. Meanwhile, some party officials began to talk of the unthinkable: political reform that would eradicate China's endemic corruption and loosen party strictures on freedom of speech and the press. Those nascent views were given their fullest expression in the slogans of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square. Some demonstrators even suggested that China should have a multiparty system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Backed by the army and Deng Xiaoping, Beijing's hard-liners win the edge over moderates in a closed-door struggle for power | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

While the scientific community still argues over the validity of independent fusion confirmations at Brigham Young University and Sao Paulo University in Brazil, it seems certain that widespread adoption of fusion technology would significantly loosen the stranglehold oil producing nations have over other industrial countries...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Cold Fusion Could Alter World Economy | 4/22/1989 | See Source »

After the four suspects hurriedly left the museum, the guard found the screws, which Tempesta said are difficult to loosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Attempt Theft of Fogg Sculpture | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

...spacious, Spanish-style house comes complete with a pool, patio, rose garden and prison-provided meal service. The government obviously hopes to loosen the restraints on Mandela, 70, so slowly that a final release will seem anticlimactic. Pretoria said it will allow Mandela's family "unlimited access" to the patriarch of the banned African National Congress. Mandela's wife Winnie rejected the offer, saying she "does not intend to take more than the 40-minute visits allowed in the past until all political prisoners are given the same privileges." As he has since 1962, Nelson Mandela remains a prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Still a Prisoner | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Following a storm of protest, Boston University President John Silber has agreed to loosen up on his parietal plan that includes a ban on all overnight guests of the opposite sex from the school's dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

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