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...three centuries, the Quebecois -- descendants of France's attempt to plant a North American colony -- maintained a society that was rural, Roman Catholic and inward-looking. But in the 1960s, as Quebecois moved into business and the professions, Quebecois separatists raised their sights. They now control two parties of their own -- the Parti Quebecois, which contests (and sometimes wins) Quebec provincial elections, and the newer Bloc Quebecois, which holds seats in the national Parliament. French Canadians are intelligent and entrepreneurial. When it comes to politics, they're blowhards, endlessly recounting their frustrations, many of them imaginary. Compared with other minorities...
...this direction has been tried before with little success. From the mid-1970s until the 1986 tax-reform act took effect, the tax burden on capital was reduced, but the rate of growth of investment during those years was half of what it was in the 1950s and 1960s...
China's huge crop of baby boomers, born in the 1960s when Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution crippled the nation's embryonic birth-control program, have reached childbearing age. They have also developed looser sexual habits: premarital and extramarital sex is rising rapidly...
Epps suggested that Malcolm X's ideas from the 1960s still apply to civil rights concerns today...
...kinds of U.S. workers: the ones the Japanese imagine and the ones Americans see around them, putting in long hours and worrying about the future. Miyazawa's description of poorly motivated workers, unwilling to put in long hours, sounds like the classic management view of featherbedding autoworkers in the 1960s. While he imagines workers who are doing less and less, the truth is that Americans are working longer and longer hours. Perhaps Miyazawa has the right to strike back at the quality of American effort after listening to Lee Iacocca blame his problems on Tokyo. But are the problems...