Word: pla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consolidating his power in 1978, Deng Xiaoping used a mixture of cajolery, cash incentives and hard-knuckle politics to oust military officers from top provincial and party posts. Since 1985, 1 million men and women, including 455,000 officers, have been mustered out. Though still 3.5 million strong, the PLA has lost its position as the world's largest military organization to the 5.2 million-member Soviet armed forces. Last week Beijing announced that another 70,000 army officers would relinquish their uniforms and take government jobs. The military's share of the national budget, now $5.8 billion, has declined...
...always gone along with Deng's changes. Last year Deng, 83, was forced to remove his chosen successor, Hu Yaobang, from his most important offices partly because he was seen as antimilitary. His successor, Zhao Ziyang, is also a reformer, but one who is apparently acceptable to the PLA. When the new ranking system takes effect in the fall, Zhao is considered a strong candidate for promotion to senior general, the highest military grade...
...subtle, suggestive prose only to ruin the effect by making an all-too obvious cooperation at the end. We don't need to be told. For it stance, that the narrator's character traits are "like wild horses putting my carriage," a metaphor which has been better stated since Pla to first used it to describe the human mind. One of the more dramatic images which dominates the beginning of the novel is that of blood, which flows continuously from the narrator's uterus for no apparent reason. "Cardinal at first uses this image very successfully to suggest that...
...first full week as President, Ronald Reagan made a determined effort to set the agenda and the tone for his next four years. At the President's initial press conference and in other words and deeds, some symbolic and some concrete, he made it pla-in that he has strategies for foreign as well as domestic policy, that he has a team he thinks can carry them out and that he will not be deterred by criticism...