Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Universities have been wary to commit to along-term agreement to cover child care costsbecause they fear its skyrocketing rise, accordingto both administrators and union officials...
BEHAVIOR: The disturbing rise in sex crimes by youths...
Though Premier Li Peng appeared to have triumphed over General Secretary Zhao Ziyang last week, both men are accused of string pulling. One source of resentment against Li, the adopted son of former Premier Zhou Enlai, is that his connections enabled him to study in Moscow and rise rapidly through the ranks. Zhao's son is chairman of the Hainan Huahai Co., a trading and investment company. Moreover, Yang, Zhao and Deng are all believed to have sons-in-law who work for army-run companies that export Chinese arms...
...podium. "I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Tbilisi," urged the gray-bearded man, referring to the 20 demonstrators killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that no ethnic group be singled out for sympathy...
That was just the first in a series of moments of surprise and spontaneity that rocked the historic convention, which continues this week. No sooner did Gorbachev rise to chair the session than a delegate stepped forward to challenge the agenda, which had been set in a rump party session the day before by 446 delegates. "Please, People's Deputy Andrei Dimitreyevich Sakharov," invited Gorbachev as the stoop-shouldered Nobel Peace laureate -- his country's best-known dissident -- took the microphone. Sakharov, who only 2 1/2 years ago was enduring exile in the city of Gorky, expressed concern that...