Word: revolutionizing
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Evolution is revolution in today's China, as the great transformation of the communist system proceeds in the painful effort to create a system that works. Last week Jiang Zemin was the latest leader to order a retreat from one of the ideology's sacred tenets: state ownership of industry...
BEIJING: What a difference eight years can make: The new central committee elected by China's Communist Party Thursday is filled with young faces, typically sympathetic to the 1989 Tiananmen Square student demonstrators who were fired upon by the army, reports TIME Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime Florcruz. But, he says...
When the news of the storming of the Bastille reached Versailles, the hapless Louis XVI expressed the hope that this was a mere revolt. "No, sir," replied the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, "it's a great revolution." For the sake of the House of Windsor, we must trust that...
...wartime blitz, he sealed the affections of his people and prepared the ground for the new Elizabethan era. But this, now, is a revolutionary era, and like the Bourbons it has caught the Windsors by surprise. Call it the era of Diana, who revolted against the "firm" and revolutionized the people's perceptions, not only of what the monarchy is, but what it could become. Even as the Windsors grieve, they and the country should give thanks that Diana has shown them the way. And dreadful irony as it may be, her untimely death creates the opportunity for the Windsors...
EDINBURGH, Scotland: From Glasgow to Edinburgh, from the islands to the highlands, the lads and lasses have spoken: Scotland will have a parliament. With a resounding 74.2 percent voting in favor, Scotland will get a legislature of its own in 2000, and with 63.4 percent in favor, that parliament will...