Word: totally
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...Soviet Union. And in certain symbolic things Japan has already become No. 1. In 1980 six of the world's ten biggest banks were American; today eight are Japanese and only one American. In that same decade, the Tokyo stock market passed the New York Stock Exchange in total value. Average Japanese per capita income climbed past the U.S. figure. And then the Japanese bought control of Rockefeller Center, Columbia Pictures Entertainment and much of Waikiki Beach...
...riots before, but they had been stifled quickly. Not this time. Three days after the massacre in Timisoara, demonstrators shouting "Give us our dead!" filled the city's bloodstained streets. As word of the killing spread, marchers turned out in towns throughout the country. Because of the government's total control of travel and communications, rumors often replaced information. East European news agencies such as Yugoslavia's Tanjug and, in the new world of glasnost, even Moscow's TASS and East Germany's ADN, became important sources of news. They reported that Rumanian army troops had joined in some...