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...there are Americans who cannot even reach the first rung of the economic ladder. Such linguistic prissiness and ideological timidity make addressing the problem even more difficult. As for solutions, the candidates echo each other. Bush: "A job in the private sector is the best antipoverty program that has ever been invented." Dukakis: "Full employment is the most important human-services program we have...
...real question is whether China's economy -- or for that matter any other based on Marxist principles -- will ever be ready. Optimists in China insist that the pricing setback is temporary and point out that especially broad decontrols in the southern province of Guangdong enacted experimentally in November 1987 were eventually accepted. Others are not so sure. Su Shaozhi, China's most eminent ideologist, is convinced that Communist states, as currently constituted, are "societies of scarcity of supply and excess demand." The only way to cure that dilemma, he argues, is to permit political pluralism, giving workers a voice...
...benched with an injury, there was no credible U.S. threat from beyond the 3-point line. The Soviets went on to beat Yugoslavia for the gold, while the Americans, "playing for pride," as Thompson put it, blew out Australia, 78-49, for the bronze in their worst Olympic finish ever. Failure in Seoul has fueled the argument that N.B.A. pros, currently banned under amateur rules, should be allowed to play in the Olympics. The International Amateur Basketball Federation is expected to clear the way next spring for some N.B.A. players to compete at Barcelona...
...with her trailing heels. Next the American eked over, and the bar teetered. But it stayed up. Ritter, 30, thus became the first American to win this event since 1956, setting a new Olympic record in the process. "I knew it was going to take my best jump ever," said Ritter, who had only once before jumped 6 ft. 8 in. Until last week, she was known as something of a hard-luck case. The jumper broke her ankle, for example, the day after she made the 1980 Olympic team. She also had a reputation for choking at big meets...
...owned the event for the past four years, breaking the world record nine times and scoring ten of the 16 best jumps in the history of the sport. His real Olympic goal was not to beat the competition -- which seemed a foregone conclusion -- but to become the first man ever to soar over 20 ft., a threshold he had been flirting with all year...