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...Shanghai, once considered China's most progressive and cosmopolitan city, has fallen behind Peking, Canton and even Chongqing and Shenzhen in embracing the reforms. Shenzhen has set up more joint ventures (150, in contrast to Shanghai's 90), while Canton, one-third Shanghai's size, has more private enterprises (100,000 vs. 90,000). At this rate, Shanghai is in danger of losing its traditional role as the commercial and industrial hub of China. "There is an evident lack of creativity and drive," complains a middle-level city official. "We may have been safe and steady, but the pace...
...skylines could talk, Shanghai's would echo that judgment. While Peking and Canton boast modern hotels and office towers, Shanghai looks frozen in time, a black-and-white photograph from the 1930s. The buildings along the Bund that housed the great British trading firms and banks before the 1949 Communist take-over still stand, but now they are sooty and decrepit, ghosts from another...
There has been money for the infamous ashtrays and hammers. There is money for investigations and even for Air Force transports to fly home the remains. But the charter flight entrusted with 256 lives went to the lowest bidder. Kenneth L. Crowell Canton, N.Y. Death on the Farm...
...past draws the country too. For the Bears are the past. Their lineage goes back to the running boards on the very Hupmobile in that Canton, Ohio, auto showroom where the American Professional Football Association and the Decatur Staleys were concocted in 1920. George Halas did most of the talking. The A.P.F.A. soon became the N.F.L., and the Decatur franchise, originally a sales tool for a starch manufacturer named Staley, shifted to Chicago in the custody of the amazing Halas. It might be an exaggeration to say that the entire fabric of sport was sewn in this singular...
...employ them. "I never look at gender or hair color or clothing," avers Steven Spielberg, who chose women to direct three of the 24 episodes for his Amazing Stories. "I look at talent." But every baby mogul knows he must be a businessman first, a booster second. Says Mark Canton, president of production at Warner Bros.: "Nobody hires a woman just because she's a woman. The stakes are too high to be an idealist...