Word: wu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his 75 years, Hu Qiaomu, the chief guardian of Maoist doctrine and a leading Communist Party theorist, climbed the four flights of stairs as if he relished the task. His destination: the Peking apartment of Playwright Wu Zuguang, 70, an outspoken critic of conservatism in the party and a strong advocate of free speech. Once inside, Hu recited a litany of Wu's ideological sins. The message was clear: leave the party or be expelled. Wu quit on the spot...
...team tried lanthanum, the rare-earth* component of the IBM compound. Maw-Kuen Wu, head of the team's Alabama unit and a former graduate student of Chu's, replaced the lanthanum with another rare-earth element, yttrium...
...substance showed so much promise that Chu filed a patent application on Jan. 12. That promise was soon fulfilled. At the end of the month, after subjecting their creation to a series of heat and chemical treatments, Wu and his assistants began chilling a bit of the compound, by dousing it with liquid nitrogen, and sending an electric current through it. To their amazement, the sample's resistance began to drop sharply at a towering 93 K. Recalls Wu: "We < were so excited and so nervous that our hands were shaking. At first we were suspicious that...
...Wu, who was nominated by seven of the 20students in his Biology 7b section, was noted forhis ability to integrate personal experience andcourse material in a low-pressure environment."[Wu] has the rare ability to combine academicleadership with concern for his students bothacademically and socially," said Mary P. K.Rossano '89, who introduced the 21-year-oldteaching fellow...
...Wu said that the University should be morecareful in selecting teaching fellows, who carrythe bulk of instruction at Harvard. "I think it'simportant for the Undergraduate Council to lookinto how teaching fellows are trained and picked,"Wu said...