Word: xian
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...seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "xian myth...
Although the government tolerates Peking's youthful money-changers, it cracked down on more flagrant speculators. The party newspaper People's Daily pointedly reported the fate of entrepreneurs in Xian who had managed a quick $7,600 profit by gouging buyers of woolen blankets; the merchants were punished with heavy fines. Storeowners in Peking who had hiked prices on 14-in. color TV sets to make an extra $100 profit were fined and reprimanded publicly. "This ill wind of arbitrary price rises must be resolutely checked," the paper insisted...
...have begun to spill out from nearly half of China's provinces, as well as Shanghai, its largest city. The operator of a small retail business tells a foreigner on a train in central China that several dozen house-church leaders are under arrest in the city of Xian. Says the businessman: "All we can do is pray and weep for them." A Protestant writes a letter telling of public notices posted in Fuyang, west of Shanghai, ordering Christians not to share their faith beyond that city or to listen to short-wave Gospel broadcasts. A woman evangelist...
Once in China, Hammer received equally good treatment. The signing was toasted at a sumptuous banquet at Peking's Great Hall of the People. Hammer had timed the event to coincide with President Reagan's trip, but the President was sightseeing in Xian that day. So the confident Hammer spoke for him: "I know he's very pleased that I've done this...