Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There should be about four to five thousand people there," sophomore Jeremy Amen said...
Last year's council term ended with a tumultuous debate about the role of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) on campus. Also last spring, the council lost several thousand dollars when it sponsored a poorly attended concert by folk singer Suzanne Vega...
...China. By plane, train and car, from the prospering coastal provinces to the country's heartland, where the agricultural reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping ten years ago began a miraculous economic transformation, to Beijing and a village not far from the capital that is infinitely poorer than towns a thousand miles farther inland, I find little that is charming or especially exotic. Just a mostly drab and dusty country, a perfect backdrop for the tedious and too often unrewarding nature of daily life. Still, the people seem energetic, if fitful; a fifth of the world's population in a cage...
Despite its vast gray Soviet-style tenements and the absence of the imposing wall that enclosed it for a thousand years, Beijing strikes me as China's prettiest and most livable large city. Staggered work shifts are common, and vehicles from outside the city are banned during the day. The avenues are broader, the streets are cleaner. There are even more trees...
Sometimes an interruption is worth a thousand words. Taking the train from Shanghai to Shandong province, Michael Kramer shared a four-bed sleeping compartment with a middle-aged factory official clad in a blue Mao suit. As the man explained to Kramer why only foreigners and very important bureaucrats were allowed to travel in such accommodations, the door opened and in strolled a young Chinese man in a yellow Lacoste shirt, loaded down with boxes of stereo equipment. Absorbed in the music crackling through the headphones of his Walkman, the budding entrepreneur remained oblivious to Kramer and the very-important...