Word: banners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...escalated the next day, however, when several Lampoon initiates began goose-stepping down Mass. Ave., carrying the club banner in a march for independence. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan saw the group marching and asked whether they had a protest permit. When the marchers answered that they hadn't, Sullivan attempted to confiscate the Lampoon banner from them...
...opponent, Stephen Comley, hired an airplane pulling an antinuclear banner to fly by President Bush's vacation residents in Kennebunkport, about 40 miles up the Maine coast. Bush was spending the weekend there...
...ideology, Deng diminished the party's claim to legitimacy. He left the party all the more vulnerable to the flood of discontent that has so stunned the world in recent days. An improvement in living standards is not enough to meet the needs of the people. As a student banner in Tiananmen Square put it, WE LOVE RICE, BUT WE LOVE DEMOCRACY MORE...
...sovereignty is set to run out under an Anglo-Chinese agreement reached in 1984. Now Hong Kong's residents, the vast majority of whom are descendants of refugees from the mainland, scrutinize the crisis in China for clues to the fate of the colony under Communist control. Declared a banner that Hong Kong students carried last week: TODAY'S CHINA IS TOMORROW'S HONG KONG...
...sight was enough to give a Soviet advanceman heartburn. There, in the Great Hall of the People, was a long table set up with microphones and teacups. The rows of chairs were filled with hundreds of journalists, all of whom had to dodge banner-waving marchers, speeding ambulances and mazes of bicycles in Tiananmen Square to make what was supposed to be a 5:45 p.m. press conference by Mikhail Gorbachev. Then, just at showtime, came the news: the session was being moved five miles away to the state guesthouse where Gorbachev was staying in the Diaoyutai compound...