Word: accessibility
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...Hong Kong encourages an astute sense of politics among its residents, who are, by Chinese standards, well informed, not least because they enjoy unrestrained access to global news and political commentary. That Hong Kong was, in 1989, an undemocratic British colony with a seething communist giant as a neighbor merely taught people to pick their battles carefully - in itself a valuable political skill - and they saw Tiananmen as a cause worth the agitation. The principal of my primary school, who addressed us soon after the Tiananmen drama unfolded, warned us to ignore the protests and the marches, saying...
...door account for less than 10% of annual income, so hiking ticket prices doesn't do much to close a budget gap. And because many museums benefit from taxpayer support, any attempt to charge more can turn into a battle over the right of the public to have affordable access to a place it subsidizes...
...institute would charge out-of-town visitors the full amount, but Chicagoans would get a $2 discount. James Cuno, the institute's director, says he's very aware that because museums have obligations to the public, they can't operate like just any business. "Our goal is to increase access to the collection," he says. "That's the business we're in. We're not in the business of making money...
...judge from almost all polls and referendums over the past few decades, it is reliably unpopular. Judges prop it up. Since the election of the first black President, it has been a shoe waiting to drop. The rationale it rests on - that minorities are cut off from fair access to positions of influence in society - has been undermined, to put it mildly. Elevating a hard-line defender of affirmative action is thus a provocation in a way that it would not have been in years past...
...still stings in Beijing. If a private sector company in the west had proposed buying a minority stake in Rio Tinto, would the Australian review process have taken as long? Or it would it have been waived through much more quickly - before commodity prices recovered? Now, far from gaining access to a giant iron ore reserves, Chinalco has to watch the two biggest producers in the world - BHP and Rio - do a joint venture with their reserves in the famed Pilbara region of western Australia. It's no wonder that the executive director of China's iron and steel institute...