Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raised consciousness, but we didn't stop the war. We stopped its further escalation. We stopped the further American commitment. Nor did we change sufficient minds and hearts in America so that operations similar to that in Viet Nam could not take place in Central America. These Chinese students seem ready to change very fundamental policies in China. It's something -- I can't get over...
...state and society. Though Zhao was originally a protege of Deng's, his popularity rose because the public knew he opposed suppressing the demonstration. His eviction from power further alienated those already hostile to the Communist Party. It also narrowed the party's options for restoring order, making force seem virtually the sole choice...
Much of the trauma comes from the fact that the benefits are rarely spread equitably. "There's a widespread feeling that Chinese society has become unjust," says Stanley Rosen, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. "The decisions as to who will do well seem arbitrary results of government policy." Entrepreneurs and party officials profit from the economic reforms, but office workers and intellectuals do not. So while an individual's expectations are conditioned by the prosperity he sees around him, that newfound affluence is cruelly out of reach for many. TV, with its ubiquitous images...
...known residents, 200 or so grizzlies, may have been reduced by a total of two as a result of the conflagrations. A pair of bears that had been tagged with radio transmitters could not be located during the winter. Says Assistant Chief Ranger Gary Brown: "The bears don't seem to be frightened by fire. Poaching is a bigger threat by a long shot." The grizzlies will, however, find it more difficult to locate a crucial source of prehibernation protein, the whitebark pine nut. Though less than 20% of the whitebark pine trees in the park were burned, some scientists...
...largest-selling weekly magazine in the U.S., TV Guide might seem to be plenty popular already. But with growing competition from monthly cable guides, as well as from Sunday-newspaper TV supplements, circulation has been slipping -- to 16.3 million for the last half of 1988, down from nearly 17.3 million in early 1987 and more than 18 million in the late '70s. Advertising revenue too has flattened out, dropping 6% in the first quarter of 1989 from a year earlier...