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...resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground. "You'll bow your head to me 20 times," he snorts, "and then we'll be even." She leaves the money where it is, saying, "I'll decide when we're even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire in Her Eyes | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

College health service, like the anticipant new American system offer pre-payment plan that over certain types of care and exclude others. And the health service also emphasize care by general practitioners and restrict access to specialists--characteristics certain to be part of the national reforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Health Care Could Look Like UHS | 4/21/1993 | See Source »

...artists then allegedly asked for a $500 payment in cash as a sign of goodwill that the victim would not keep all of the money, and pressured the victim to withdraw the $500 from a bank machine immediately and surrender...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: District Court Arraigns Suspected Square Con Artists On Six Counts | 4/21/1993 | See Source »

...suspects then allegedly asked for a $500 payment in cash as a sign of goodwill that the victim would not keep all the money. The con artists allegedly pressured the victim to withdraw the $500 from a bank machine and give it to them...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Two Suspected Con Artists Arrested by Harvard Police | 4/17/1993 | See Source »

...market economy and working democracy is a huge historic spectacle worthy of high summitry. As Clinton said in a speech last week to sell the proposition to skeptical Americans, the U.S. "cannot stop investing in the peace now that we have obtained it." But Vancouver is only a down payment -- for the U.S., a $1.6 billion down payment -- on a long-term commitment that will tax all the West's ingenuity and staying power, and Russia's own capacity to change, before it pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The First Aid Summit | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

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