Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to be responsible in our struggle for democracy and for science. We have to be responsible to the martyrs." Wuer said there were many that night. "Simply put," he continued, "on June 4, the darkest day of the republic, China went sick." He said he saw "many comrades and compatriots" killed and beaten by "bestial, fascist troops" or "crushed to death and flattened out by tanks." In a separate statement, he likened the present rule in Beijing to "a black sun" that rose "on the day in June that should have belonged to a season of fresh flowers...
...tracts in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Last April the Japan Tropical Forest Action Network, a small but feisty environmental group based in Tokyo, presented the giant Marubeni Corp., one of the world's largest importers of tropical hardwoods, with a mock award: a cardboard chain saw for winning the Grand Prix for Tropical Forest Destruction...
...stand could push the timber industry back into its hard-line position. Before the compromise was conceived, the lumbermen had made it plain that they would reject any reduction in permissible logging. In Washington, Oregon's congressional delegation was angered and disappointed. Lamented Hatfield: "I wonder if those who saw fit to torpedo a fair, short- term solution have anything to offer...
Koito officials became even more suspicious of a scheme against them when they saw disruptive characters known as sokaiya at the meeting. These stockholders, who typically have links to gangsters, prey on companies by charging protection money to keep quiet at such meetings or hector other stockholders. The sokaiya seemed to take Pickens' side in their outbursts, but they did not vote in his favor...
Exhaustive analysis of equipment from the Moscow code room found no evidence of bugs. Authoritative officials at the NSA, CIA and State Department -- including sources who saw daily reports of the joint three-agency investigation -- are unanimous on this point...