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...point central-committee blueprint outlined the basic themes of reform but was vague on key details. A new system of taxation will require the 30 provinces to pay more to the central government, which collects only about 13% of all taxes paid in a chaotic system rife with inequities. Credit will be somewhat restrained when commercial banks are freed of various obligations to support money-losing state enterprises, but that will be some time coming. Finally, privatization of state-owned companies was acknowledged as a distant prospect -- though the communique made it clear that for the moment public ownership would...
Frightened ethicists often tout Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" as a nightmarish blueprint of where science could lead us. Huxley envisioned a world of factory-produced human beings, engineered and brainwashed to fill society's different needs...
...Fellini as a prophet and documentarian of every cultural excess of the late 20th century. There's no question that Fellini was in part satirizing his milieu. But because he was incapable of a stillborn frame of film, his pictures celebrate what they criticize; they amount to a cautionary blueprint for survival in the atomic age. If you've been very lucky or very naughty, then life for you is like a Fellini movie...
...step onto the sunny lawn, where 3,000 of the old warriors and the new trustees of peace had been summoned. For four days the diagram of the proceedings had been drawn and redrawn, the seven chief figures moved like chessmen on their tiny stage, chairs put in the blueprint, then withdrawn, until finally it was agreed they all would stand to talk, sit to sign, stand again. Clinton was to act as stage manager. He would reach for the hand of Rabin at the crucial moment, turn next to shake the hand of Arafat, then step back half...
...agreed. That way the numbers would be available but could not be directly linked to Clinton's plan. Two days later, after a 48-hour marathon of speech writing, Clinton spelled out his new, improved plan to an audience at the Merck pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. Clinton's blueprint for reform was now in place...