Word: stress
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Despite pledging their support to different candidates, group leaders were quick to stress unity along party lines...
...Chinese Premier Wen wasn't asked about the property law. He was, however, asked about an article he penned recently that appeared to argue that it could be a century before China was ready for democracy. While Wen didn't confirm that interpretation exactly, he was at pains to stress that China's transition in all areas - democracy, the law, commerce, culture - would be very gradual and take "a long historical period." Let's hope he didn't mean it will be a century before a fully functioning, integrated set of commercial laws come into effect. Unlike NPC delegates, companies...
...target of achieving full democracy by 2012, when his new five-year term will end. The response out of Beijing to Chan's plan, however, was anything but welcoming. Chen Zuo'er, the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, was at pains to stress that it was Beijing-and by implication, not local Hong Kongers-that took the lead on political reform during negotiations with the British prior to the handover. Present-day activists in Hong Kong, Chen said, were just "people who now pretend to be democratic heroes...
...daughter I would never let her marry into the imperial family." MIDORI WATANABE Japanese royal watcher and author of The Princesses of the Imperial Family, on reports that Empress Michiko (right) suffered from severe stress. Crown Princess Masako, like Michiko a commoner who married a prince, has reportedly battled depression since joining the royal family...
...patient was an 8-year-old California girl with severe headaches. Her parents, who were both struggling to adjust to new high-pressure jobs, took her to top neurologists and pediatricians. The child's symptoms, the doctors concluded, were a response to stress at home, along with perhaps a sinus condition. But four or five months later, it became clear that she had a brain tumor and needed surgery. When her doctors looked back at early scans of her brain, they were aghast to see the shadow of a tumor they had previously overlooked...