Word: tensing
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Now, with the famed comet due to begin its streak across the horizon in November, the hyping of Halley's is once again in full swing. At last count, 80 companies around the country were selling tens of thousands of items related to the celestial itinerant. Enterprising pitchmen are hawking...
Kang's feelings suit Beijing. Since the democracy movement exposed fissures in Chinese society 16 years ago, the government has tried to supplement a fading communist ideology with nationalism through a concerted education and media campaign. The two biggest protests in China since 1989 have been patriotic demonstrations essentially endorsed...
Yu Xiaogang, 53, the founder of Green Watershed, realized that the millions of villagers affected by China's 80,000 dams are a powerful weapon. Tens of thousands facing relocation in Sichuan province rioted last October over compensation for their paddy lands along the Dadu River. They formed a "dare...
If options are limited for Washington and Seoul, they are worse still for North Koreans. During the famine of the 1990s, tens of thousands of them survived by escaping to neighboring China, with some finding their way to new lives in South Korea. In recent years, an underground "railroad" run...
The Palace says that allegations that three of Arroyo's relatives, including her husband Miguel, received money from an illegal gambling racket are just another part of the plot. Last Thursday, Sandra Cam, a 45-year-old former provincial official, told a Senate investigating panel that she delivered tens of...