Word: marches
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...suspected communists and leftists, not to mention the torture of thousands of others. With that legacy hanging over his head, Pinochet rammed through an array of constitutional measures that made him immune to prosecution, including a lifetime Senator's seat that he took amid widespread protest last March, when he retired as an army general. "The locks and bolts made him untouchable," says Christian Democratic Congressman Andres Palma. "And he believed they would accompany him wherever he went in the world...
...words to a nation of anxious parents in 1946. Since then, nearly 50 million copies of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care have been printed in 42 languages. Spock, whose presence loomed large during the formative years of the baby-boom generation, was 94 when he died in March, leaving the stage just as a new flock of parental advisers was coming...
...faster than anyone thought possible. To his many admirers at home and overseas, he was the enlightened mandarin who single-handedly could break through the red tape and propel China's economy into the next century. Even Asia's debilitating economic crisis didn't seem to faze Zhu. In March he laid out a program for China to make its state-owned firms profitable, restructure its debt-ridden banking system, halve the bureaucracy and privatize the housing market--all by the year...
...banking system from disappearing into a black hole was not mentioned in the final communique, but Zhu's once ambitious plans are still the subject of a fierce backroom debate. Everyone knows where the buck stops in China's economy--not least Zhu, who, before he became Premier in March, coined his own version of the motto Harry Truman used: "I have 100 coffins--99 for corrupt bureaucrats and one for myself...
...passage by dogsled across the continent. The trek was intended to surpass the achievement of Shackleton's great rival, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who had reached the South Pole early in 1912 (narrowly preceded by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen) but had died with his four companions on the march back...