Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However rancorous the exchanges between China's two top leaders may have been, it is unlikely that Deng acted impetuously over a clash of wills. In pushing Hu from the No. 2 spot, Deng knew he would destroy his own carefully crafted succession scheme and fuel a conservative backlash that could present serious obstacles for his economic reforms. Deng's move may have been defensive, a pre-emptive strike designed to stop conservative forces, which were revving up to exploit the student demonstrations by seeking to roll back the economic and social reforms. In short, it is quite possible that...
There are darker currents, too, of a passive racism. The black soldiers are occasionally patronized and sentimentalized; they stand to the side while the white soldiers grab all the big emotions. And the Vietnamese are either pathetic victims or the invisible, inhuman enemy. In the scheme of Platoon (and not just Platoon) they do not matter. The nearly 1 million Vietnamese casualties are deemed trivial compared with America's loss of innocence, of allies, of geopolitical face. And the tragedy of Viet Nam is seen as this: not that they died, but that we debased ourselves by killing them...
Jared A. Silverman, a first year graduate student who had never been to the stockroom before, noticed "16+5" as he waited to purchase a printer ribbon. "I like the geometry of the paintings but I find the color scheme disturbing. The dark--is that black or purple?--is very disturbing. I would have hung the blue and orange one here instead," he says...
...Iran in 1985 of American weapons from Israeli stockpiles reveals that some of the proceeds were originally supposed to be funneled back into Iran to finance groups working to overthrow the Khomeini government. He displayed a memo written to Shimon Peres, then Israeli Prime Minister, which named this ingenious scheme of having the Ayatullah finance his own downfall as one of the goals of the arms sales...
...likely to loom up long before the last page. The detective has become an amiably flawed working stiff rather than a thinking machine. The final chapter is often devoted to the start of a romance for him or his client instead of the laborious untangling of a villain's scheme...