Word: weis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes as no surprise to a ruling circle determined to hang on to power. For the past few months, the government has been dealing harshly with political critics, imprisoning leading domestic dissidents, preventing opposition groups from organizing, blacklisting overseas dissidents to bar their return. Last year long-term activist Wei Jingsheng was rearrested, and just last month nine democratic opponents were given substantial prison sentences for attempting to organize human-rights and labor groups two years...
...handsome faculty salaries offered by top U.S. universities, and has even started to lure some prominent non-Asians. To direct a new $4.5 million environmental-studies program, for instance, Hong Kong recruited Gary Heinke from the University of Toronto. "We're not shy," laughs Hong Kong university president Chia-Wei Woo, whose resume includes a stint as president of San Francisco State University. "When we see someone we want, we can be very sticky...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Mathematics Bulletin published its first issue in April of this year. Approximately 800 copies were dropped in students' mailboxes and distributed in the Science Center, said Chao-Wei Hwang '96, president of the Bulletin...
...Stan Wei, a pre-frosh from Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania, asked Rudenstine how the University responds to worker's concerns. Wei said he had been given a pamphlet urging students to call for the University to "be a responsible employer...
...China relations threatened to worsen as China announced it was considering bringing new criminal charges against prominent dissident Wei Jingsheng, who was detained last week. Later another well-known dissident, Xu Wenli, was taken into custody by police...