Word: yang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring the bare statistics on unemployment to life for this week's cover story, the job, oddly enough, was both easy and difficult. The easy part was finding sources to talk to; unemployed people usually have plenty of spare time. When Boston's John Yang telephoned to arrange an interview with a local parks department employee who had been laid off last April, the response was resigned: "Any time is fine. I've got nowhere to go." Says Yang: "That told me more about unemployment than any of the statistics and reports I had pored over...
...TIME staffers who reported the cover story follow disparate fitness regimens. Says Boston Correspondent John Yang...
...crucial than ever. Shortly after the strike was announced, Correspondent Madeleine Nash was at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to assess the situation with passengers and air-traffic supervisors who remained at work. On the day of the strikers' return-to-work deadline, Boston Correspondent John Yang drove to Hollis, N.H., where he witnessed a rally by two local chapters of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Says Yang: "Their singing and cheering erupted into a frenzied roar at the 11 a.m. deadline...
...first lieutenant in the Army stationed in the Central Highlands. I used to write my wife that I was in a safe area in Viet Nam, just putting in my time What did she know about Mang Yang Pass, halfway between insanity and hell? A few weeks after I returned to the "real world," we went to a friend's wedding. A truck backfired. I reacted instinctively. My understanding wife couldn't quite comprehend what I was doing cringing in the gutter, rolled up next to a parked car on New York City's Third Avenue...
...latest dip in the ebb and flow of China's uncertain liberalization came in a sudden midnight raid by Public Security Bureau agents. Their targets: Xu Wenli, 37, and Yang Jing, about 30, the editors of a hand-mimeographed dissident newsletter, April Fifth Forum, named for a 1976 antigovernment demonstration. Though Chief Editor Xu scrupulously avoided outright criticism of China's leaders and shunned the label of dissident, he has been outspoken in demanding more freedom of expression. Last year he noted that "if only views that echo the leadership are allowed, there is no way to speak...