Word: wang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass., announced its network, called Wangnet. It has three separate channels: one for Wang's computers, another to join its machines with those of other manufacturers and a third for video transmissions. That may be more extensive than many companies need. Wang says it is already drawing up plans for more than 80 Wangnet installations...
...point in the book, for example, we meet his eager friends Li and Miao Wang over dinner in their "middle class" but spartan, two-room apartment. At another, we watch a tense encounter between Butterfield and authorities over failure to pay for a train ticket he did not want, it turns into a sort of "struggle session" from which he can escape only by paying for the ticket and apologizing for his "mistake...
...there's one thing that Butterfield celebrates, it is the talent and creativity of the ordinary people. People like Lihua, a young woman who managed to educate herself and get herself back to Peking, despite having been sent to the countryside during the stormy Cultural Revolution. Or people like Wang Keping, a young dissident sculptor. Or the many other talented people whose energy, idealism, and talent have been wasted, "blighted by misguided political passions." The potential for success is there, Butterfield seems to be saying. It is now up to the Communists to start tapping this talent...
...recent committee hearings investigating the Department of Mental Health. "How many employees do you have?" one legislator asked the department's spokesman. "I don't know," came the response. "Well can you find out?" "It will take a while, we do it by hand." "Can you imagine," Lakian asks. "Wang computers working like that?" Two-thirds of a governor's job, this candidate says, involves efficiently managing these bureaus...
...swashbucklers. He screened three of his pictures (Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Lust for Life) for small but enthusiastic audiences. Douglas also took a meeting with the cast of Teahouse, an epic film currently under production. "Let's not waste any time," said Douglas to Wang Yang, head of the Peking Film Studio. "We have everything we need to make a movie together." The Communist government sees that films with suspect political sentiments or open displays of physical affection wind up on the cutting-room floor. Even so, the Chinese turn out at their local Bijous...