Word: simmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simmer of unrest in China, The simmer of unrest in China, the undersputter, is pervasive. There comes first, when one looks for opposition, the old Red Army. Trained in combat, promoted by victory, its leaders were men of capacity and command. Slowly, so as not to disturb a slumbering volcano, the aging commanders are being urged out. Retirement is greased with comforts: full pay, choice of home anywhere in China, honors and consultancies. The murmur of envy puts it that such retired generals are guaranteed fangzi, chezi, haizi ? quarters at least as good as those they enjoyed as commanding...
Although the leaders were released last week as a conciliatory gesture, it seems unlikely that their movement will soon simmer down. Thus far the dissidents have not called for independence for Assam, but separatism is never very far from the surface. One group even boasts its own flag, a green map of Assam with a mailed fist in the center. Except for a narrow passage, the state is separated from India by Bangladesh. Since ancient times, its ethnic and cultural ties have always been closer to Burma and Tibet than to the rest of India. In tribute to their proud...
...GAME is played at Harvard Stadium today, an equally fierce battle continues to simmer along a five block stretch of Garden St, just north and a bit west of the Square. Like today's game, the Garden St contest has all the essential ingredients for a hot matchup players fans and a sports complex. What's strange about this game is that the clock has been running for eight weeks, no one has set foot inside the sports complex and both sides appear headed for a loss...
...famous Milwaukee brewers have fallen on hard times. Schlitz no longer makes beer there. Takeover battles simmer among the suds, and mutinous stockholders threaten to dislodge entire boards of directors in nasty brawls not far above the barroom level. The brewers are in a battle for third place in the U.S. beer business, behind leader Anheuser-Busch and second-place Miller. Analysts believe that third largest is big enough to compete with the industry's leaders, but anything much smaller than that level cannot muster the advertising megabucks to fight off relative obscurity and low sales...
...outlawing abortion and banning busing as a tool to desegregate schools, be put off while the new Government concentrated on the more pressing economic and budgetary concerns. Even now, many top officials, from the White House to Capitol Hill, would like to see these troublesome issues continue to simmer and sputter on a conveniently distant backburner. Conservative leaders, however, are in no mood to wait any longer. "Our patience is wearing a bit thin," says Ronald Godwin of the Moral Majority. So Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the New Right's Senate shepherd, has insisted that Majority Leader Howard...