Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trembled with fear and hid himself. The current Peking regime, say the students, is behaving much like the prince. For months, they say, the authorities encouraged political reform. But when democracy actually poked its head through the window, in the form of student demonstrations, government officials tried to push it away...
...fill out, and that his target of funding acquisitions with $10 million a year in gifts and raised money will be met. "Doing the Temporary Contemporary and Bunker Hill in four years left nothing over," he says. "But now that the museum is up, we can put the same push into building the collection -- and we will...
Matthews plans to paint for the rest of hislife. When his sons become independent, he may tryto show his work for a living. "I don't push mywork," he says, nor does he have an agent becausethe price increase of having an agent makes arttoo expensive for most people to afford, he says...
...above paragraphs suggest some of the dynamics of student political demonstrations. It is up to sincere citizens in other countries to sift the meager news from China and push further in the effort to match in the thinking of us outsiders the sophistication that infuses Chinese politics. The first rule is, don't rely on "experts...
...Bombs erupted in downtown Paris, men with machine guns stormed a synagogue in Istanbul, four Palestinian hijackers held a Pan American plane hostage for 18 hours in Karachi, and 17 more foreigners were kidnaped in Lebanon. Many leaders looked to another kind of pressure -- that of economic sanctions -- to push the white-dominated government in South Africa toward reform. But neither trade embargoes nor the pullout of Western firms seemed likely to douse the flames of racial violence. Indeed, last week the unrest continued, with sporadic clashes with government forces, protests against a state of emergency and "black Christmas" boycotts...