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Personal enrichment beyond the sense of moral achievement can result from the communal military setting so different from the lives of most Americans. Groups organized upon departure stay together for the entire month, and the program accepts 141/2-year-olds up to 65-year-olds. Gen. Davidi says he believes "a balanced distribution of ages contributes to the stability and good spirits of the group," and he estimates the average age to be around 30. Couples are welcome but are not guaranteed special accommodations. Younger people are encouraged to go in the summer, but there are no limitations other than the administrative...
...views. It is sort of tight high pressure Whereas in this senior this House course although academically and intellectually you are constrained to be under a lot of pressure, thinking about it, constantly working, there isn't intolerance towards other people's ideas it's much more of a communal thing I think that helps...
There are many other signs that Deng's innovative policy has begun to undermine the values of both history and ideology. Peasants are reluctant to join collective projects or to tend such communal needs as village irrigation when they can make more money by tilling their own fields. Self-sufficiency has prompted others to evade the law. To curb population growth, the government has forced women to use birth-control devices, agree to be sterilized or undergo abortions, while also decreeing that those with more than one child must lose 10% of their income for at least five years. Some...
...inspiring captains of industry who have mastered the Protestant ethic of self-denial, he rubs shoulders with a bunch of cold, grubbing workaholics whose youthful grabs at promotions only mature into grabs for profit shares. Caleb's officemates crunch endless numbers, eye each other suspiciously and find their only communal identity worshipping the institution of the firm, and the sacred text of the annual report...
...accommodation with the Communists with, when necessary, forthright independence. Some recent decisions of the Polish church, as a result, have been made not by Glemp alone but by a council of the episcopate that includes Cracow's Franciszek Cardinal Macharski and seven senior bishops. The council's communal decisions could yet become more defiant toward the regime than Glemp would like. -By Spencer Davidson. Reported by John Moody/Warsaw...