Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward free enterprise, 268 doctors and dentists in Peking have opened private practices. Clearly, the changes will make life more difficult for some people. The government has cut the Peking opera troupe's $400,000 annual subsidy, for example, forcing it to make up the difference with bigger box-office receipts or by reducing expenses. As Peking progressively abandons the "iron rice bowl" system (everyone is entitled to basic staples like rice), the Chinese have had to deal with the hardship of unemployment...
...romp on the beach and show off his grizzly-bear chest to the camera with once-a-week regularity. No. 2 in the latest Nielsen ratings, the show has apparently propelled Selleck to movie stardom as well. His first feature film, High Road to China, displaced Tootsie as the box-office leader upon its release March 18. A lethargic imitation of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a wild chase across Asia in '20s biplanes, High Road has little besides Selleck to recommend it. But that is enough for his fans...
Both reports relied heavily on evidence supplied by a small, neoconservative group called the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which set off the present furor (see box). Last week the I.R.D. produced a 100-page booklet with more documentation for its sweeping claim that the foreign policy activity of many Protestant agencies "often leans in some significant ways toward the Marxist-Leninist left...
From their shared New York City headquarters, the "God Box" to insiders, the accused Protestant agencies have fought back with a barrage of publicity, defensive polemics and at least 36,000 explanatory packets sent to local church leaders. N.C.C. General Secretary Claire Randall admits no serious mistakes in the council's political judgments and believes the attacks result from "our firm and unwavering adherence to Gospel as our churches interpret it." Says the Rev. Randolph Nugent, who runs the Methodists' Board of Global Ministries: "Our only bias is toward the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not any political system...
...responsibility to maintain "a zone of truth which represents the full range of morally serious reflection." And the leftist thrust of the Protestant activists has not won the status of a moral truth. Says Methodist Bishops' President Crutchfield of those who want to rein in the God Box: "This is not merely a right-wing attack. These are people who believe in Christians' being involved in the life of the world. They just don't want the church to come down on the side of the Communists...