Word: wang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capitalists and confiscating their vehicles. But publicity in the national press forced the officials to return the vehicles. The government, similarly, ordered a Shanghai rubber-research institute to reinstate an engineer who had been demoted for helping a small factory improve its miniature rubber bearings during his off-hours. Wang Ying, an independent fruit vendor in Peking, found herself on the front pages of the newspapers when an outraged policeman confiscated her vendor's license. In the fracas, her mother suffered spinal injuries. Officials apologized to Wang and compensated her for her losses, including her mother's medical...
...onetime movie starlet, Jiang beguiled Mao sufficiently to become his fourth wife and, from 1966 to 1976, the remorseless doyenne of the Cultural Revolution. During that purge, the Gang of Four (Jiang; Zhang; Wang Hongwen, 48, now serving a life sentence; and Yao Jiang in court Wenyuan, 51, serving 20 years) was responsible for some 35,000 deaths. They persecuted former Head of State Liu Shaoqi and vilified China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, 78. Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious...
...James C. Wang, Ph.D. Lexington, Mass...
...Urban Development Action Grant helped induce Wang Laboratories, a $900 million computer firm, to move its headquarters to Lowell. By 1982, Wang and other new high-tech firms helped bring 6,000 new jobs to Lowell. Today, companies that assemble computer-age products on the wide-plank floors of restored 19th century mills employ 20% of Lowell's labor force...
Harvard's Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) program--and similar offerings at other Massachusetts universities are attempting to "debunk the myth that you have to be a math major to work with computers," said Michael R Paige, manager of Wang Laboratories "We want to redirect--people who have good back grounds in all field and make them more marketable," said Paige, who has worked as a curriculum consultant...