Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sparked by sympathy for the striking students, the protests are the most widespread in Communist China's 40-year history. Their broad appeal is reminiscent of the People's Power movement in the Philippines that ousted President Ferdinand Marcos...
Chief complaints are corruption and nepotism, widespread among all levels of the ruling Communist Party and the government...
Bush deployed the troops following widespread reports of fraud during the May 7 presidential vote and violence against opposition candidates. The additional troops will back up the 10,000 American soldiers already in Panama...
...western France, where counterrevolutionary rebellions in the Vendee, Brittany and Normandy were brutally put down, antipathy toward the revolution is widespread. Historian Chaunu calls the retribution "genocide." In 1793 General Francois Westermann had reported proudly to his government, "I have trampled the children under my horses' hooves. I have massacred the women so they will give birth to no more rebels." The new movie about the Vendee uprising, Vent de Galerne, has understandably garnered intense local support and money. Says Jean-Michel Mousset, a trucking-company owner from Ste.- Florence who put up $5,000: "In 1793 liberty, equality...
...when the world Jewish community mourns the slaughter of six million of their people at the hands of a nation possessed by hate. It is a day to remember, it is also a day to remember in the right context. The Holocaust, perhaps the most brutal expression of widespread race-hatred and genocide in history, deserves a place apart from the contemporary political debate...