Word: train
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While the plan calls for prices to be rolled back to July 3 levels, prices in many stores kept on rising. The announced end of government subsidies for gasoline pushed prices up 670%, to the equivalent of $1.60 per gal. In anticipation of a 350% rise in subway and train fares, commuters flocked to stations to stock up on tokens...
...conservative dissent, which would have allowed the creche, was written by Kennedy, 52, the court's newest member. Kennedy contended that the majority ruling by Harry Blackmun, and in effect a whole train of Supreme Court decisions, "reflects an unjustified hostility toward religion." In his opinion, Kennedy proposed that the court apply two new tests to determine the constitutionality of links between the government and religion. First, Kennedy wrote, "government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in any religion or its exercise." Second, the court should outlaw only those "direct benefits" that tend to create a state religion...
Born in Yangzhou, near Shanghai, Jiang was educated as an engineer. He was sent to train in Moscow during the same period as hard-line Premier Li Peng. Unusually cosmopolitan for a Chinese leader, Jiang speaks Russian and English and reads several other languages. He advanced steadily in the machine and electronics industries until the Cultural Revolution temporarily derailed his career. Rehabilitated, he used his back-room skills in carrying out post-Mao economic policy to earn him election in 1982 to the Central Committee...
...need to reassure the outside world and intimidate citizens at home, China's aging leaders are still groping for a way out of the political morass. The desire to grind out all traces of the democracy movement takes precedence. A court in Shanghai accused three people of burning a train that ran over a human barricade, and quickly sentenced them to death. The harsh actions open the door to a wave of execution orders. Such a move would be tragic for China's psychic well-being and potentially fatal for its economic health, and it was unthinkable just...
...through central Paris toward the English Channel. This is the waterway of kings and conquerors, of ruined abbeys, gothic trees, half-timbered farmhouses and pastoral symphonies on either bank. Until this summer, visitors who wished to savor the creamy countryside of Normandy had to cope with traffic and train schedules. But now, if they wish, they can finally take to the water and its welcome privacies. The M.S. Normandie, the first sleep-aboard luxury cruise ship to shuttle the Seine, made its maiden voyage from Honfleur to Paris this month, arriving to fireworks and Gershwin and a flotilla of welcoming...