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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...
...wasted no time in setting a tone of can-do urgency. Shortly after assuming office, Gorbachev declared a crack-down on alcoholism. As if to underscore the contrast with his aged and often invisible predecessors, he traveled widely, exchanging his fedora for a hard hat to inspect factories and showing off his stylish First Lady Raisa abroad. Gorbachev also moved quickly to consolidate his personal power. His principal rival for the top job, Grigori Romanov, suffered the indignity of sudden retirement. After 28 years as Foreign Minister, Gromyko was kicked upstairs, to the largely ceremonial position of President. And last...
...even made a posthumous climb: Adams' autobiography is probably the most expensive book ever to scale the best-seller list. The volume owes its $50 price largely to its 277 pictures, many of them never before exhibited or published. Some have been reproduced with too little contrast, but the photographs throw as much light on Adams' genius as anything in the text. Looking back in an amiable mood, he has produced the kind of memoir given to noting that a 1944 New York City hotel room was "most agreeable" and that Walter Mondale could be "most cordial and patient" when...
...through very different experiences. Sweden, for example, is struggling with wage and price increases that are 2% to 4% higher than those of its major competitors. This year wages may rise by close to 8%. Growth is expected to slow from 2.5% to 1% in 1986. In Denmark, by contrast, inflation and wage in creases are coming down to the rate of its partners in the European Community after years of rapid government spending. Denmark's major problem is a widening trade deficit, which is increasing the country's foreign debt. Norway has been enjoying growth rates of more than...
...greatness was still unsuspected by even the most exuberant of the Patriots' worn and wistful constituency. As recently as last year, this was a fifth-place team behind the Boston Celtics, Red Sox, Bruins and Fluties. At least a modern Super Bowl record must have collapsed when, in contrast to the Chicago lottery, the Patriots were able to accommodate every season-ticket holder (count them, 7,500) with two ducats apiece for the big game. Twelve hundred and fifty people demurred...