Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your support grows, isn't there also the chance that you'll go too far and have a chilling effect on creativity...
...think so. If I go too far, number one, the networks will let me have it, and you better bet your bottom dollar they can. Number two -- more critical -- my supporters will back off. They'll no longer support me. And they shouldn't, and I hope they won't. But I don't think they're ever going to have to make that decision...
...internal document leaked through Hong Kong claims Deng then demanded action and the suppression of all perceived threats to the party's central authority -- namely himself. In spite of Zhao's refusal to support the imposition of martial law in Beijing, Deng pressed ahead with plans for military rule with Premier Li and President Yang...
...architects of the debacle, Li and Yang could eventually prove liabilities to Deng, and he might have to jettison them. An alternative could be provided by Qiao Shi, an unfamiliar Politburo member, who emerged as a rising star after a telegram from the Supreme Court congratulated him for his support of the military crackdown...
...Said a senior British diplomat last week: "There is not a single institution that has not been besmirched in these past weeks." The threat of civil war has not entirely vanished -- if only as a psychological rather than an actual battle. The students' calls for democracy had unparalleled national support, which may have gone underground but will not go away. Perhaps 300,000 troops are still encamped around the capital. The Communist Party leadership is distrusted by large numbers of its own people. The men at the top have been condemned by the outside world as the enemies...