Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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November 14: The gridders beat Penn, 31-14, to set up the Harvard-Yale showdown for the Ivy League title...
What the Chinese people demand, such as freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, is only the fulfillment of certain rhetoric written in the constitution, itself the fruit of their struggle which brought about the present republic. This is indeed a breath-taking confrontation, a showdown of will and power. For the first time in the past forty years, the government found itself in a dilemma, unable to either repress or concede. Ultimately, as seen in the events in Beijing over the weekend, it decided to repress...
...just might come down to a mental showdown...
...their part, the students took care not to trigger a showdown. In the streets they outmaneuvered the police and kept tight ranks to prevent provocateurs from causing an incident. By constantly quoting the constitution to justify their rally, they presented themselves as anything but wild-eyed radicals. To silence criticism that they are "antiparty" or "anti- socialist," students stopped denigrating Deng and Li. Peking University students carried a banner reading WE RESOLUTELY SUPPORT THE CORRECT LEADERSHIP INSIDE THE PARTY. Asked which leaders were correct, however, one of the students holding the banner quipped, "None...
That eventually led to a showdown meeting on March 6 at which, according to a Brigham Young document, the scientists and top administrators from both universities were present. At issue was the timing of public statements. Pons and Fleischmann said they would prefer to wait before releasing results. Jones countered that he had been invited to talk about his work before the American Physical Society in May and that he intended to do so. According to Brigham Young, the meeting ended with an agreement to submit simultaneous papers to Nature on March 24. When Pons and Fleischmann suddenly announced their...