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...hostile takeovers. Companies long known for keeping workers on the payroll through thick and thin have changed their policy: AT&T, for instance, has laid off 36,600 workers since January 1984. The result, says Alan Draper, coordinator of the Work in Society program at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.: "American workers are on the defensive. They are working as hard as they can because of the insecurity...
Keith and business partners Kelly and William Duggan of Canton each contributed up to $500 to Taunton Mayor Richard Johnson's campaign committee last December. Johnson is one of the nine MHFA board members...
...curiosity about the state of Chinese cuisine and the quality of restaurants -- what will be offered and how it will taste. To find out, TIME Food Critic Mimi Sheraton spent three weeks tasting a variety of foods in eight cities: Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Peking, Xi'an, Chengdu and Canton. Her report...
Food has its operatic side in China, and anyone who savors local color will be repeatedly drawn to the street food markets, like Canton's Qingping, an enormous, dazzling maze where private enterprise is allowed to thrive. Here, more than in the sparsely stocked indoor government markets, are stacks of jade green cabbages, gigantic leeks, silvery winter melons, woodsy mushrooms, mounds of gnarled ginger roots, pomegranates and persimmons, displayed alongside skeins of noodles, fish swimming in vats of running water, and live geese and ducks, sitting sleepily in place with their feet tied together. Also live in crates...
...House in Chengdu and the somewhat macabre copy of the Parisian Maxim's in Peking. Even Chinese breakfasts of rice porridge, pickles, pork and dumplings surpass their Western counterparts, although there were excellent room-service breakfasts at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing and the luxurious White Swan Hotel in Canton...