Word: threes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...most immediate sign that Chairman Hua is in trouble was that he has not been seen in public for more than three weeks. Last week he even failed to turn up for a visit by a Greek Communist Party delegation; the group was received instead by Hu Yaobang. Hu, like Deng, is one of the few survivors of the Long March. Like Deng, too, the peasant-born Hu has been twice purged and twice rehabilitated. His resurgence was signaled last February when he was named head of a restored party secretariat, a post that gives him control of the party...
Each of the teams made its designated player an early-round draft choice. The only problem was that the three selections were all-the same man: Dave Winfield. An athlete for all seasons, Winfield thus became one of the few players ever drafted by professional teams in three sports...
...Presidents have spent much time posing for the portrait-bearing gold medal they get as an Inaugural gift. But Ronald Reagan not only agreed to three sittings, he had a life mask made. Only Abe Lincoln, whose likeness was sculpted in 1860, had been so masochistic. For 20 minutes the President-elect sat motionless, slathered crown to collarbone with silicone goop, straws jutting from his ears and nostrils. After the 20-minute ordeal, Sculptor Edward Fraughton pronounced him a model model: "He's used to being made up." But not quite so heavily. "Boys," cracked Reagan, "there...
...shocks and setbacks like those that have afflicted it for the past two years. The tone of the meeting, the fourth and final of a troubled year, was similar to that set by David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's designated new budget director, and New York Congressman Jack Kemp. Three weeks ago, they sent Reagan a 23-page memo in which they called for the declaration of a state of national emergency to avoid an impending "economic Dunkirk." Those two words already threaten to become what might be called the economic hallmark...
...year's, when the GNP in the second quarter declined at an annual rate of 9.6%. Republican Conservative Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist for Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, predicted that the economy will show about 3.9% real growth on an annual basis for the last three months of 1980 and then increase at a 4% yearly rate during the first quarter of 1981. Then he sees business slipping back into a recession during the six months between April and October...