Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anyi and his wife Li Lanting, the street scenes in Beijing last week seemed eerily reminiscent of another spasm of unrest that began to rock China 23 years ago. Then, as now, students marched in the streets by the hundreds of thousands, waving red flags and chanting slogans defying an entrenched political establishment. Destination: Tiananmen Square. Then, as now, the demonstrators vilified aging national leaders -- including, as he must have recalled bitterly last week, Deng Xiaoping, then Communist Party General Secretary, who at one point was paraded around Beijing wearing a dunce...
...Pamela Rae Stewart spent a week in a San Diego jail in 1986 on charges that she had failed to provide for her baby by defying her doctor's advice to stop using street drugs during pregnancy. Stewart's child was born brain damaged and died six weeks later. The charges were eventually dropped...
Later in the week, Washington had good news: the Producer Price Index rose ! by a moderate 0.4% in April, a smaller leap than most experts had feared. Wall Street responded Friday by pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up 56.82 points to 2439.70, its highest level since the October 1987 crash. But when the sharp increases that took place during the first four months of the year are taken into account, wholesale prices are still zipping upward at a rapid 9% annual rate. The conflicting trend lines -- down in retail sales, up in producer prices -- heightened concerns about a return...
...with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley, a senior economist at the Wall Street firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert. "Cutting the budget deficit is the proper tool. But it is late...
...think there is great concern out there that American society has things seriously wrong with it? Not just because "I can't walk down the street...