Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hierarchical loyalties demanded by the ancient philosophy. In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew reigns as a benevolent but stern patriarch. South Korea prospers because of -- not in spite of -- Park Chung Hee, the dictator who laid the foundations for his country's phenomenal economic expansion. Though Elegant does not quite make the argument, the Confucian ethic, with its emphasis on obedience, can justify the Tiananmen crackdown. Deng Xiaoping is said to have modeled China's reforms on Park's repressive yet ultimately fruitful policies...
...Quayle's college professors has an indelible memory of trying to make a point with Quayle, and talking into air. "I looked into those blue eyes, and I might as well have been looking out the window," says William Cavanaugh. But he was the teacher of Quayle's freshman composition course; he had differed with his student over the prose of Whittaker Chambers. Witness, Chambers' portentously anticommunist book, was a kind of bible in the Quayle family. Quayle's tactical incomprehension with Professor Cavanaugh may have been the response of one who knows where ideological conflict goes when...
...member of the Staatssicherheitsdienst, the now defunct secret-police force known and reviled by East Germans as the Stasi. Once employment by the elite Stasi was a way of life. Now it is the curse of Dieter's existence. "Everybody has forgotten that we worked to make this country safe," he says. "We were the true believers, and now we are left with no jobs, no security, no safety...
...packed her children and her belongings into a U-Haul and headed for Washington and a career as a professional lobbyist. Today she runs the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, a consulting service based in Arlington, Va., for communities in Love Canal-like situations. "The only way to make change is to do it on the local level and move up," says Gibbs, 38. Two of her biggest battles at the moment: protecting some 250 members of the mining community of Kellogg, Idaho, where lead has been leaching from an old Gulf Resources smelter, and trying to help 400 families...
...conferences. Her message seems to be getting through. At least one oil company has banned Styrofoam cups on its drilling rigs in the Gulf. And next year Texas will require codes on plastic bottles to identify the type of material they are made of, a measure that will make recycling easier...