Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been a minority all along in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose excesses are opposed by a majority of Communist Party officials, bureaucrats, local and provincial commissars and apparatchiks, factory managers and often workers. The Maoist-dominated news agencies' own reports revealed flash points of "unprecedented strong resistance" last week all across China. In Sinkiang, the province that contains China's atomic-testing lands and borders on the Soviet Union, 10,000 former soldiers formed an "August First Field Army" to resist Mao's Red Guards. Seizing weapons and ammunition from an arsenal, they warned that...
...second Wunderkind arrived in 1929. Robert Maynard Hutchins came to the university at the age of 30, also from Yale where he had been dean of the law school. Like Harper, he could not resist the chance to put his ideas into practice. During his 22 years at Chicago, Hutchins developed his philosophy of education into the "Chicago plan" which focused on the undergraduate...
...world's governments and central banks are against a gold price increase. Moreover, no increase is possible without the acquiescence of the U.S., which guarantees to sell gold at $35, still has $13 billion in gold reserves to back up its word. And the U.S. is determined to resist a move that would have the effect of devaluing the dollar. "Any suggestion that the price of gold be raised," said a Treasury Department official last week, "is completely unacceptable...
...fact that the people are not happy with the present situation, they accept to change it, let's say a 50 percent change. I don't see necessarily a clash in the sense of open hostility, of armed revolution, or anything of that kind. But if they do resist, I think that the situation can easily evolve towards a break a clear-cut division of waters...
...holiday greeting to his 110,000 employees, Industrialist Alfried Krupp could not resist a reference to West Germany's economic woes and a sober prophecy that 1967 "will not bring any relief." It was a message that all of his countrymen could ponder: after years of heady prosperity, West Germany seems to be caught in a swinging door between present inflation and potential recession...