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...have really been difficult ones, a period of belt tightening and building, building, building from scratch. The only country that came to our assistance with concrete, tangible help was the Soviet Union, and I am not saying this as a Communist, but as a Polish patriot. Now Poland ranks tenth in the world in terms of industrial output. But at the same time our country has a lot of shortcomings and some neglect in its infrastructure. We are now working to overcome these difficulties...
...JUST AS INTERESTING as what the administrators are saying is how they say it, especially in light of their audience. Harvard College Fund representatives, like most alumni, are a delicate and important lot, with interests substantially different from those of undergraduates. The Fund raises about one tenth of the Faculty's operating budget every year--an amount that, Rosovsky says, used to represent "the frosting on the cake" but now, with times hard, "the difference between slow bankruptcy and rapid bankruptcy...
...Chairman's goals are, as always, difficult to understand, some China watchers believe that he is trying to strike a complex political balance between the radical and moderate forces. The consensus is that Mao's own strategy for the post-Mao era took shape at the Tenth Party Congress, held a little more than a year...
Stinging Rebukes. The uneasy compromise involving Chou and the radicals had one almost certain target, the power of the military establishment. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, a number of provincial commanders had been trying to establish their hegemony over government and party organs. At the Tenth Party Congress, the military's representation on the 319-member Central Committee was trimmed from 56% to 41%. Four months later, eight of the most powerful regional army chiefs were transferred from their long-term bases of power to new, unfamiliar commands...
...bobbled numerous scoring chances throughout the contest, stranding 13 men, including two in the ninth and two in the tenth...