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...Such as? He paused, and just rotated the forefinger of his right hand in front of him, over and over. His meaning was clear enough. Nothing is more important to China's leadership - nothing - than keeping the economy ticking over, in making sure those in the middle class have decent new places to raise their families, and that there are jobs for workers in places where, not long ago, there were only watermelon fields...
...helping create are a bridge way too far? He looked at me as if I were from another planet, then smiled politely. "There is only one Shanghai in China," he said. "People want to come here from all over the country. People need good quality housing at a decent price, and that will continue to be true for a long, long time. Sure, there might be periods where the market slows down a bit; but the underlying things that are driving it, no, they won't slow down." There are about 20 million people in Shanghai now, Guo noted...
...better." Two couples we've become friendly with say they want to have a second child - now permissible in Shanghai since the government loosened the one-child policy a bit in 2004. All this at a price much cheaper than it would be to buy a decent apartment in Shanghai (let alone a house in the San Fernando Valley...
...cannot believe that a man as fine and decent as McCain would want to become President by the underhanded tactic of accepting the nomination of a party that loves him only for his appeal to the opposition. If McCain were half the principled gentleman he pretends to be, he would drop out now in favor of Rush Limbaugh. Now there's a Republican you can sink your teeth into...
English professor Stephen Greenblatt, the editor of what he described as a journal with “a decent reputation and a quite anemic subscription base,” advocated for the motion because he doubted it would accelerate the death of his journal, and because he said he was worried about the currently high cost of many monographs...