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...also begun to pursue new goals. Under Mao, the people were told that their lives would be enriched if they dedicated themselves to work. Now they are being exhorted to work in order to get rich. "Our government promotes the policy that some will get rich first," says Du Runsheng, the top party adviser on rural affairs. "Then others will get rich. Our final goal is that all people will be rich." The words kuaile, or pleasure, and yule, or recreation, have crept back into the national vocabulary. "Only with an adequate amount of wining and dining, fun and games...
Unlike Ruth-chaser Roger Maris and others under journalistic seige, Rose kept both his hair and humor. The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way. "I knew chicken noodle was on Tuesday," he said significantly. But that night an 0-for-4 showing got him away from the specials (asparagus) and back to the basics (vegetable). Ron Robinson, a raw Reds pitcher who last spring had fretted that he wouldn...
...addition, Du Plessis announced the reintroduction of the two-tier rand, which was in effect until 1983. Under this system, the U.S. dollar price of the "financial" rand will be set by the central bank and pegged lower than the "commercial" rand. Foreign investors will be able to buy South African stocks at the lower financial rate, but will be required to sell at that rate. The financial rands will not be allowed to leave South Africa, although nonresidents will be free to buy and sell title to them in other countries...
Union Carbide's long-term woes stem partly from its slowness to adjust to a slump in the chemicals business, particularly in petroleum-based products. The company's financial performance has lagged behind such rivals as Du Pont and Monsanto for the past several years. To perk up profits, Union Carbide is expected to put less emphasis on petrochemicals so that it can concentrate on its more successful business lines, including industrial gases (nitrogen, argon, oxygen) and consumer products (Eveready batteries, Glad bags, Prestone antifreeze...
Besides Bush and Kemp, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole is expected to enter the race. Other possible hopefuls include Howard Baker (who held Dole's job before retiring last year), former Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont IV and even the freshly converted Jeane Kirkpatrick, recently retired Ambassador to the U.N. Yet Bush and Kemp so far best symbolize the struggle for the mantle of Reaganism, the battle between the mainstream of the party establishment and the activists of the New Right. Some Republican strategists even believe that the race will turn into a "cultural civil war," pitting the blue-blooded...