Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shave last week in his Knoxville home, looked out the window and saw a body in his backyard. Police found the remains of Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, snarled in a parachute. Along with 79 lbs. of cocaine, two pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing upright, he hit the ground headfirst...
...conviction but out of straightforward pragmatism. Gu Dehua, a 28-year-old tailor in Shanghai who earns about $70 a month, enrolled in the party apparently in much the same spirit as a Western counterpart might sign up with the Rotarians. Did Gu see a contradiction between the Communist vision and his eagerness to collect material possessions? "Communism is the ideal," he explained, sitting in a small room appointed with two TV sets, one color, the other black and white. "But my property is mine forever...
...that half of all state- and collectively run enterprises were cheating on their taxes. Deng's government is concerned that jealousies could grow even further among China's many regions, thus affecting the pace of reform. This may intensify the need for the Deng leadership to forge a national vision that goes beyond Communism. Hu Yaobang recently told the party's propaganda department that "the most important political task of literary and artistic creation and performance is to inspire patriotism." But patriotism without a / higher goal can easily curdle into ugly nationalism. "There are obvious dangers to using nationalism here...
...long-awaited conference of the Chinese Communist Party that begins this week, Deng hopes to secure his vision by promoting some of his younger loyalists to positions of party leadership, thereby safeguarding his legacy of reform. In Peking last week, taxis and hotel rooms were in short supply as the more than 1,000 conference delegates began to arrive in the capital. At the gathering, only the fourth such meeting in the 64-year history of the Chinese party, delegates will discuss a proposed new five-year plan for national development and other topics, but the "central mission...
...stories. The apparent model, again, is Miami Vice, but the show looks more like an '85 version of The Mod Squad. The season's biggest howler is Hollywood Beat, another Miami Vice-influenced show about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard. Creator Aaron Spelling's vision of Hollywood's "raw underbelly" features a ludicrous gallery of street folk (good-hearted prostitutes, a "cute" bag lady and a caped wacko called Captain Crusader) who could be refugees from a Walt Disney version of Freaks...