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...Last week the National Association of Realtors reported that Americans were buying existing homes at a record 4.3 million annual pace in September. New homes have been selling at the fastest rate in 19 years...
...people's liberation and in building China into a socialist country with initial prosperity. Today, guided by Deng Xiaoping theory, the Chinese people are firmly pressing ahead with reform and opening-up and have made remarkable achievements in the modernization drive. China has entered a period with the fastest and healthiest development in this century...
...Americans and their Chinese counterparts halfway around the world are watching his every move because Jiang leads 1.2 billion people in the world's most populous country with one of the world's fastest growing economies...
...Crimson's staff editorial (Oct. 14) characterized Chairman Jiang as "an evil man, leading a truly evil empire." Having spent two years in the so-called "evil empire," I feel that such a description is both inappropriate and counter-productive. Jiang's China is currently the fastest growing economy in the world. [Economist, August 17th, 1996.] One result of this economic prowess is a dramatic increase in the living standard for one-fifth of the world's population. While the government's actions at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 insult our American sense of human rights, our definition of those...
...after the funeral, it reached 17,000 and re-entered the Billboard Top-100 charts. During the same time, a Greatest Hits collection went from sales of 4,300 to 15,600 copies. John's musical eulogy also helped this week's opening show in North Carolina achieve the fastest sellout in an arena's history. According to John's spokeswoman, the "inadvertent and unintentional" upheaval started within hours after the funeral and "took on a life of its own." Says Ticketmaster president and CEO Fred Rosen: "People almost seem to want to touch her through him." Some industry experts...