Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least Chairman Mao was honest," said a worker from Hubei province as he carried a lifesized poster of Mao. "He even sent his son to the Korean War. Nowadays, the leaders send their sons to America...
...hearing a baby crying out in the woods. After she leaves the tent, the audience hears it too. The family tumbles into its car outside a diner near Amarillo, Texas, and resumes squabbling, only this time father and daughter swap roles and accustomed dialogue, and so do mother and son. The elders squeak about needing a bathroom break. The children trade curses about whose bad idea this adventure was, anyway. Then they screech off into the night, ostensibly with a grade-schooler in command of the steering wheel...
Against these plangent strings of personality is the oboe howl and twitter of Niall Buggy as the only son, a pixilated and desperate man steeped in family lore who nonetheless bolted half a continent away. For him and his kin, heritage is a cruel joke masquerading as an oracle...
...pervade the Chinese bureaucracy. As television viewers at home watched intently, Chen, an unpopular hard-liner, seized the microphone and answered defensively. "I'm a grade-twelve cadre with a monthly income slightly over 300 yuan (($80))," he protested. "None of my family members are high-ranking officials. My son is a junior cadre in the Beijing civil affairs bureau, and my daughter-in-law is an ordinary clerk...
...son of a London retailing executive, and a graduate of Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, Sorrell worked in posts ranging from sports promotion to food retailing before landing a job with the Saatchis in 1977. He spent eight years helping manage that firm's headlong growth, then left to build his own empire. Sorrell and a partner paid $676,000 for a controlling share in WPP in 1985, then used the company as an acquisition vehicle; they have bought 39 marketing and advertising firms so far. His most stunning triumph was the 1987 purchase of the JWT Group...