Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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An estimated 30,000 students demanding democracy and the legalization of their newly formed independent student union poured out of 40 Beijing colleges to take part in the ten-hour trek from their campuses to Tiananmen Square, a short distance from Zhongnanhai, where China's leaders live and work. Again...
Nothing, in short, about her prior career hinted that she could be as deft and daring as Harold Lloyd, as rubber-faced as Bert Lahr, as touching as Chaplin -- and more ladylike than Milton Berle. Along with the other foremost icon of the '50s Golden Age of TV, Jackie Gleason...
The night before the march, Jia Guangxi and his five roommates at Peking University toasted one another with farewell glasses of wine. "Some of us even wrote last wills," recalled Jia, 18, an economics major from Inner Mongolia. And why not? Chinese officials, having tolerated eleven days of protests by...
Well, not everyone can. In addition to show-business types, many of the buyers are youthful entrepreneurs who started out in their garages and now control high-tech companies worth tens of millions of dollars. The rest of the money comes from overseas. "I've sold houses to the royal...
The reluctant owner of these properties, and tens of thousands more, is the U.S. Government. A federal stockpile of distressed real estate holdings is suddenly growing to an unprecedented and ominous size as Government regulators seize insolvent savings and loan associations and commercial banks. President Bush's plan to bail...