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During the rectification movement of 1957, when citizens were urged to "let a hundred schools of thought contend," a colleague of Shaolong's innocently implicates him in criticism of their work conditions, and when the official policy reverts back to thought control, Shaolong is banished to a labor camp, later to be killed by a falling tree. Tietou's uncle is going blind, and Uncle's girlfriend, star of an army theater troupe, is sent to jail because she refuses an order to have sex with political leaders. Shujuan's second husband (Li Xuejian) dies from a liver ailment aggravated...
...average inflation rate among members to fall from 3.3% this year to 2.9% in 1995, with the O.E.C.D. forecasting a modest annual German inflation rate of less than 2%. With Continental interest rates still stubbornly high -- one-year bonds yield 5.8% in France and 5.08% in Germany -- many economists contend rates must drop further if the general sense of prosperity is to deepen...
...First, as Harvard's Richard Pipes says, sanctions "communicate a sense of moral outrage." Moreover, he argues, "one only has to consider what happens when aggression is not followed by some kind of punitive measures; not to react in such instances is silently to condone it." Pipes and others contend that Moscow was emboldened to invade Afghanistan in 1979 (which provoked a series of ineffectual Western sanctions) partly because the West did little but huff when Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia...
...respondents felt that encouraging human rights in China was more important than trade, and 60% said the U.S. should require China to show more progress before renewing MFN. In the view of experts such as Douglas Paal, president of the Asia Pacific Policy Center, the President can contend that Beijing has made such progress only by telling "lies...
Critics of the central bank contend that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is jeopardizing the recovery by fighting the wrong war. Not only is inflation dormant, they argue, but Americans are working more efficiently in a fiercer, more global competition. The result is that today's U.S. economy can grow faster with fewer price increases than ever before. "The historic connection between economic growth and inflation has been broken," declares General Mills chairman H. Brewster Atwater Jr., whose company slashed the price of Wheaties 10% earlier this year. "There is very little evidence of any inflation in any of the businesses...