Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vast square that has been the center stage of Chinese politics for more than three centuries. Because troops stationed in Beijing might not comply with orders out of sympathy with the hunger strikers, the forces were drawn from nearby provinces. Many of the soldiers were peasant boys who had spent the previous week in camps outside the city. Forbidden to read newspapers or watch television, they were not aware of how much support the hunger strikers had attracted...
...democratic practices in other countries, democracy meant the opposite of everything associated with Communist Party rule. "They can't enumerate concretely what they want," says a diplomat in Beijing, describing the antigovernment movement as fundamentally a "scream of the damned." As Grace, 19, a pig-tailed student who spent Friday night in Tiananmen Square, put it, "We think everything must change...
When 50 Internal Revenue Service agents swooped down on the New York City headquarters of Jordache Enterprises, spent two days rummaging through files and carted off more than a million documents, the company's executives were shaken but not surprised. They quickly concluded that their rivals at Los Angeles-based jeansmaker Guess, Inc., were involved, and they were right. The IRS raid and a subsequent grand-jury investigation of possible tax violations by Jordache were triggered by tips supplied by Guess to one of the most powerful IRS officials on the West Coast: Ronald Saranow, who then headed...
...time when money is desperately needed for crumbling roads and declining schools, the fastest-growing sector of state spending is prison construction. Legislatures across the country are considering outlays of $10 billion over the next six years. In 1983 Texas spent $288 million on prison construction and operation. By last year the figure was $500 million. Yet the system is still so crowded that Texas has already closed its prison doors to new inmates six times this year. "Corrections used to be a trivial amount of a state's budget," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime...
...fiery Gdlyan, 48, spent five years uncovering a corruption scandal in Uzbekistan and became a popular hero when it led to the conviction last year of Yuri Churbanov, son-in-law of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev...