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fruition (iou) and Zhu Rongji (sh)


fruition (iou)



fruition noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from late Latin fruitio(n-), from Latin fruit- pa. ppl stem of frui enjoy: see FRUIT noun, -ION.]
Enjoyment; the pleasure arising from possession. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
Book of Common Prayer That we..may after this lyfe have the fruicion of thy glorious Godhead. C. Marlowe That perfect bliss.., The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
[By association with FRUIT noun.]
a. The state of being in fruit; fructification. L19.
H. James The apples in the..orchards..gave a suggestion of sour fruition here and there.
b. fig. Successful outcome of a hope, plan, etc.; fulfilment, realization. L19.
E. R. Pike Trade unions..were fed..and brought to fruition by..toilers in the British industrial scene. C. Hill Cromwell's design..came to fruition only in 1657.

Zhu Rongji (sh)




born Oct. 1, 1928, Changsha, Hunan province, China

Premier of the State Council of China (1998-2003).

In the 1950s he was denounced as a rightist, and he was purged again in the 1970s, but, once his Communist Party membership was restored, he rose rapidly. In 1988 he became mayor of Shanghai and in 1991 a deputy premier of the State Council. He was governor of the People's Bank of China (1993-95) and became director of the Institute for Economic Management at Qinghua University in 1994. He was appointed premier in 1998. In the face of the Asian economic crisis at the end of the 1990s, he worked to drastically cut back the size of the government bureaucracy. Zhu, whose economic policies were widely praised, stepped down as premier in 2003 and was replaced by Wen Jiabao.