Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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April 27: More than 150,000 student protesters defy direct Party order and march through streets of downtown Beijing. Crowds of cheering workers ignore police and prevent soldiers from approaching students...
According to Rogers, much of the program's recent financial success has come from a restructuring of its fundraising systems. In 1988, the program added Rogers as its second full-time staff member, and in the summer of 1989, PBHA established a separate committee to direct its fundraising efforts...
...scientists are suddenly optimistic about finding this missing link in Einstein's theory. A new facility called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), planned for completion in 1995, could provide the first direct evidence that gravity waves exist. The $192 million project recently got a thumbs-up from President George Bush, who asked Congress for $47 million in start-up funding as part of his proposed 1991 budget. The search for a suitable site has already begun...
Moses said that the changed format was "not a direct response to some particular requests from a particular group or a particular set of events, but my own notion that the meeting could be made more useful to freshmen...
...later learned that one Moscow University examiner had received a direct order to flunk him: "He won't be accepted anyway, and you'd just be fired." Alexei's story is not unusual. Anti-Semitic discrimination in university admissions is part of a deliberate policy of squeezing Jews out of the country's intellectual establishment. The Central Committee is said to have asked Mstislav Keldysh, then president of the Academy of Sciences, when its Jewish membership would fall to zero. It would take about 20 years to solve the "problem," he replied. I must note that Keldysh did not reduce...