Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report read by Premier Li, Zhao was $ accused of holding "unshirkable responsibilities for the shaping of the turmoil" of the past two months. Zhao was also stripped of his other official posts, making his disgrace more complete than that of his predecessor Hu Yaobang, who was allowed to remain on the Central Committee following unrest in 1987. Named new General Secretary was Jiang Zemin, 62, a member of the ruling Polituburo and party head of Shanghai. Though regarded as more technician than ideologue, he tends to side with the conservatives, who have clearly now consolidated their position...
...problem of sufficient due process when it comes to the death penalty is insoluble. You either finance the endless relitigation of these cases, or you discriminate against the poor." Two other major capital-punishment decisions are expected this week, along with the anxiously awaited ruling on whether abortion should remain constitutionally protected...
...quote: "The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral." Also: In 1929 the nation's economy "was revealed to be merely a paper tiger with feet of clay living in a straw house of cards that had cried 'wolf' once too often...
...movie and everyone in it remain, under Ivan Reitman's determinedly casual direction, very loosely organized. They amble agreeably, but not necessarily hilariously, from one special-effects sequence to the next. These are not better, worse or even different from the original's trick work, and their lack of punctuating surprise is the film's largest problem, especially at the shamelessly repetitive climax...
...that more than 300 shells and torpedoes were fired into the Bismarck by its Royal Navy attackers. Ballard says he does not plan to salvage the Bismarck. Last week he refused to provide the exact coordinates of the wreck's location, declaring that he wishes the sunken vessel to remain inviolate...