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...ADOPT ADAPT ADEPT" the Japanese corporate motto has always unnerved to Americans have never learned to accepted the utilization on our technological advance by an economic rival as flattery. Japan's ability to take American research developments, make modifications to stuff industrial needs, and surpass or at least match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows...
Perhaps the most tragic version of the "See no evil, hear no evil" syndrome is the self-applied one. People are not only adept at disbelieving others' horror stories: they are equally good at repressing memories of indignities and damage inflicted upon themselves, even when they are painfully cognizant of the injustice involved...
...will the reformists? Only last month Deng told Japan's Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone, "In another five years, I don't expect to be alive." Adept at maneuvering behind the scenes (he has twice turned down the title of Premier), Deng has done everything possible to clear the way for his protégés. Eighteen months after he pledged his support to Mao's hand picked successor as Chairman, Hua Guofeng, Deng replaced him with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing...
...Deng is singularly adept at accommodating his opponents without ever letting them escape his control. In particular, he has deployed some deft dialectical sleight of hand to dismantle Maoism without entirely discrediting Mao. He can hardly afford to denounce the former leader too vehemently: 50 years ago, after all, Deng was a participant in Mao's epochal Long March, and some 25 years ago he was helping Mao administer brutal punishment to hundreds of thousands of intellectuals. But since he assumed power, Deng has published his belief that "every Chinese knows that without Chairman Mao there would...
From the start, this band had a sound recklessness. was both brash and melodic. The Pretenders burned through the pomp and pose that had crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's astonishment, including their own, turned out to be survivors. There are two new members now: Lead Guitarist Robbie Mclntosh and Bass Player Malcolm Foster. The two veterans, Hynde and Drummer Martin Chambers, have made a separate peace with the past by putting a stake in the future. Hynde...