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...Workers feel betrayed," says an Asian economist based in Beijing. A survey conducted two years ago by the A.C.F.T.U. among 210,000 laborers at 400 state enterprises in 17 cities found that only 12% of workers felt satisfied with their condition, while 51% thought their status in society had fallen to an all-time...
...advance of the plutocrats can be attributed to several trends. With career politicians fallen from esteem, can-do entrepreneurs have stepped in to fill the vacuum. Then there is the huge cost of essential TV and radio campaigns. Political strategist Ken Khachigian estimates that a TV ad seen four or five times over a week by most of the Californian viewing public costs about $500,000. Challengers need lots of money to mount any serious campaign against most incumbents, who benefit from political-action-committee dollars and laws enabling them to carry money from one campaign to the next. Rich...
...They are three very good candidates, so anybody can beat Weld," Dowds said. "[Weld] has fallen short on many of the things he promised and he has gotten a free ride on taxes and budget issues...
...clothing bills -- but mostly the trouble was that he was constantly running for President. Jackie got what she wanted in that her husband was wealthy, but she had hoped for a life of comfort and perfection in a private world. Faced with a vast, unruly public, she may have fallen back on her father's injunction that an attractive woman should be mysterious, always holding something back to keep people guessing. Jack would take her to parties and then leave her alone while he worked the room. In response she developed her famous I'm-here-but-I'm-reall...
...Bostonians must have fallen off the bandwagon regarding the Red Sox. Hey, they were so great when they were 20-8. People were claiming they would win the World Series...