Word: revolutionized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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On July 22 the Chinese government announced that Falun Gong was banned--for practicing "evil thinking" and threatening social stability. All over China police began rounding up thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and driving them off to sports stadiums. There they were interrogated, sometimes for hours, and forced to sign...
Xiao, 32, had a tough, if typical upbringing in China during the mania of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976. Her father was driven "mentally crazy" after he was denounced at work as disloyal to Mao, and at home he expressed his anger by beating Xiao and...
Inside Japan, business leaders who believe the economy is snapping back propose a kind of pincer movement for national regeneration. According to this theory, the government--led by economics friendly Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi--spends lavishly to stimulate a small amount of economic growth. By putting trillions of yen in...
If the model sounds familiar, there's a reason: it's very like what the U.S. did in the 1990s. That was the decade in which the U.S. had to dramatically restructure its economy for a new, postindustrial age after the violent recessions of the 1970s and early '80s. And...
At the same time, however, the conservatives recognize the importance of transforming Iran?s image in the international community. In a sermon at Tehran University on Friday, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani praised Iranians who had rallied behind the leadership during the street protests, but noted that the episode...