Word: blacksburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party members, and some are members themselves, the army's brutality has soured them on the party's monopolistic rule. "The only way to save the country is to go to a multiparty system," says John Shao, a student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. He renounced his party membership after witnessing scenes of the Tiananmen Square bloodbath...
When not teaching, Buchanan runs a 400-acre farm near Blacksburg, Va. He was rumored to have been a candidate for the Nobel award in 1984, but this year, he says, "I had no premonition this would happen. I was shocked." So were some mainstream economists who have paid little attention to Buchanan's work. One M.I.T. professor last week called public-choice theory "unsophisticated." Buchanan admits that his ideas are "not standard" but points out that many of his theories are "simple applications of common sense that the academics all forget about...
...Patricia L. Cooper Blacksburg...
Saifur Rahman Blacksburg...
William R. Hawkins Blacksburg...