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Nonetheless, that same editorial advocated very un-Cultural Revolutionary means to attain China's goals; it banned the forming of "fighting groups" and declared that major issues of right and wrong "should be settled through debate." Most China watchers feel that the delicate balance struck by Chou between pragmatism and ideology?or between expertise and Redness?will endure...
...with forced marriage and polygamy. A marriage law passed in October makes it harder for a man to take a second wife or to dismiss a spouse with the curt command: "I divorce you." In 1975 Thai women won the right to run for election as village chief or attain the rank of general in the army. But they still cannot sign a contract or apply for a passport without their husband's permission...
...ever went to more trouble than Rockefeller to attain an office for which he was, if anything, overqualified. He was subjected to relentless, often brutal questioning by his congressional investigators. Yet after less than a year in office he announced last week that "it's just not worth it" to remain on the ticket. He was candid about the reasons for his decision. "I came down to Washington to serve the country I love and to help in solving the problems which we face. I did not come down to get caught up in party squabbles. I came here...
...both exclusivity and inclusivity in subcultural practices or endeavors, while simultaneously cultivating an open-ended universalism or cosmopolitanism as a style (value) for national institutions. At the extreme of exclusivism is the Amish model: total rejection of and isolation from modern society, cosmopolitanism and all. This is difficult to attain but if you work at it, as the great Amish people of my home state of Pennsylvania have, you can achieve much of it--including, of course, the many privations the Amish endure. On the other hand, inclusivism ranges, on one side, from open-ended cosmopolitanism to what might...
...repair and other elective operations. For years the nation's 15,000 junior hospital doctors have put up with the long hours (more than 80 a week) and low wages (still held to a maximum of ?6,279 or $12,872 a year) because they have hoped to attain the status of "consultants"-senior specialists who could treat private patients in government hospitals. Now, however, the Labor government is threatening to remove even this incentive. In 1974 it returned to office on a platform that included the eventual banning of all private beds and private medical practice...