Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China's more than 1 million villages will operate under the system. Some say these local elections are diluting the Communist Party's power. And the party leaders now have a vested interest in the economy's steady advance. As their Marxist ideology loses all legitimacy under the wave of money that has finally turned the country, after 150 years of sullen resentment, into a strong competitor with the West, their very survival seems to ride on their ability to keep the economy going...
...historically, rural poverty has been the underlying cause of political unrest. The floating population of desperate job seekers pouring into China's cities has reached 100 million. While they provide the cities with cheap labor, they have stripped the countryside of its ablest workers and are blamed for the wave of crime that plagues urban neighborhoods...
...second day of the meet, he easily beat the mile field and crossed the finish line with a celebratory wave to the partisan crowd. Carswell also anchored the winning Distance Medley Relay (DMR), which secured him the meet's Most Valuable Performer award...
Dealmakers had their heyday in the 1980s. Today the power on Wall Street resides with money managers, who control huge and growing pools of cash amid an unprecedented wave of investment by the American public. A flick of some fund manager's wrist can send $100 million barreling in or out of a single stock. That kind of heft flattens a lot of resistance...
...wants only "a voice, not a veto" in the NATO alliance. Primakov has taken a hard line toward NATO expansion ever since taking over Andrei Kozyrev, whom Russian critics had accused of being too soft toward the West. But his contention that that NATO expansion would trigger a wave of communist-nationalist outrage that will weaken reform has worn thin in the face of polls that show average Russians don't care about the issue. Albright arrived armed with a package of proposals to make the accession of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the western alliance more palatable...