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...within the Hub's newly affluent corridors of power that change must take place In discouraging the city's residents, be they any ethnic or racial group, from working and living in Boston, the City puts its future in peril...
Show said that at Harvard pulls more minority students from private schools and affluent families, many inner-city students may be overloaded...
...surprisingly, the flood of new wealth has begun to produce a Chinese version of the affluent society. At the Xiang Jiang state farm near Mao's birthplace in Hunan province, which was renowned a dozen years ago for its spartan housing and inadequate sanitation, TV antennas now protrude from rooftops and pop music blares from tape recorders. Local Party Secretary Qiu Huaisheng proudly points out that "of the 200 households, 126 have bought TV sets and 112 own cassette recorders." Sometimes, however, the peasants' purchases, as well as their entrepreneurial skills, are both illicit and posilively profligate. A group...
...prompted others to evade the law. To curb population growth, the government has forced women to use birth-control devices, agree to be sterilized or undergo abortions, while also decreeing that those with more than one child must lose 10% of their income for at least five years. Some affluent farmers, however, are no longer deterred by the financial penalty. As more and more young men have begun looking westward, enrollment in the once prestigious Communist Youth League, the party's junior partner, has plummeted. "People are now very pragmatic," observes a 27-year-old student in Peking. "They...
...through the civil rights wars with her husband, wants to sell. Not sell out, just abandon a pose of high-minded poverty that is not accomplishing anything, and move to a decent house in an integrated neighborhood. Carll won't budge. Then his sister and brother-in-law, affluent segregationists from Birmingham, are killed in a car accident. Their two children, mannerly young racists, move in with Carll and Jessie. More space is needed, and Carll acquiesces sulkily when Jessie finds a larger house in a middle-class neighborhood...