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What future precautions the police may adopt in response to Saturday's incident remain unclear. Community pressure, however, makes it more likely that police will pay more attention to preventing future rapes...
...become factory managers or advisers. Their confiscated capital has been returned, with interest, and China now has some 100 millionaires in U.S. dollar terms. Hu Qiaomu, the director of the Academy of Social Sciences, admitted in a policy statement in the People's Daily that China has had to adopt such capitalist principles as "the pricing system, the rule of value, and the advantage of material incentives...
...developing nations of the Third World that capitalism today is weakest. Most new countries lack an entrepreneurial class, and they usually adopt some form of statism. Often, existing elites in tribes or clans prefer a centralized system that reinforces their own authority...
...Morgan remains scrupulously objective throughout Maugham. He frequently cites letters and documents, hundreds of which he examined, whenever he discusses any of Maugham's personal affairs over which there was controversy. His explanation of Maugham's attempt to adopt Alan Searle, his secretary and lover, and to disinherit Liza, his daughter, which caused a widely publicized lawsuit and scandal, casts Liza in a more favorable light than most previous accounts...
Together and separately they lobby U.S. Presidents and Congressmen and city councilors to adopt laws that would promote jobs for deprived minorities and investment for capital-starved companies. They often recruit each other for public interest projects, major and modest. When Manhattan College, a Catholic institution, needed money recently, its fund-raising load was carried by GM's Thomas Aquinas Murphy, DeButts and Shapiro. A few months earlier the same three men, a neatly balanced ticket, did the same thing for Yeshiva University, a Jewish institution. They and others are prime movers of the Business Roundtable, which has replaced...