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There were other signs that the modernization program might be in danger. The State Council, China's executive branch of government, announced that no ! more products would be added to the categories in which prices are allowed to float. An official report stressed the importance of "mandatory" centralized planning. The reformers' emphasis on stimulating consumer demand was criticized in the People's Daily, the party newspaper. In addition, the State Council set up a new press and publications office with full censorship powers and the authority to license publications and close down "illegal" printing operations...
...million last year on revenues of only $400 million. Nonetheless, the 80-year-old Amica has earned a top grade from the monthly Consumer Reports and an A-plus billing from the A.M. Best insurance-company rating service. With a modest crop of 400,000 customers and only 39 branch offices across the country, Amica has consciously avoided increasing its size to match its reputation. Says Amica Vice President Charles E. Horne: "We address a very small segment of the market, and we try to do it well. We simply seek not to be the biggest...
...Anderson was not allowed to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night of the week...
Other sages of the investment community agree. One of Wall Street's hottest gurus, Georgia-based Robert Prechter, has used an arcane branch of analysis known as Elliott Wave Theory to predict that the Dow is on a march that will peak at 3600 by 1988. In December 1985, Yale Hirsch, editor of the newsletter Smart Money, forecast the date of the Dow's 2000 day within roughly a week. Now Hirsch predicts that the index may climb to 2300 within three months and reach 2700 later this year...
...argument for legalization is that forbidding surrogacy will simply drive it underground, ensuring that an unregulated black-market trade will flourish. But if the practice is to be permitted, in what form should it survive? Fearing that conception, the most intimate of functions, might become one more branch of private enterprise, some experts want surrogacy to be conducted like adoption, mostly through nonprofit agencies. "I do not think people should be gestating babies for money," says Arthur Caplan, director of the Bio-Medical Ethics Center at the University of Minnesota. "Entrepreneurs who come into the business are not being screened...