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...happy outcome in Wang's case was meant to reassure China's burgeoning ranks of entrepreneurs that a certain measure of capitalism is acceptable. But since many Chinese have suffered in the past because of unpredictable flip-flops in party policy, Deng Xiaoping has yet to convince everyone that this time the reforms are more than ephemeral. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Aikman and Jimi Florcruz/Peking
...confirmation hearing. "The issue has been closed really. "Click Another twirl in the career of the pirouetting Peggy--for she's been doing this verbal dance on women's issues and a few others for years now. But until President Reagan resuscitated her political corpse, insiders thought the flip-flopping had done her in for good...
...pledged after her primary loss to support Washington, but characteristically, changed her mind. Washington said he was "thunderstruck" at the mayor's decision, but in perspective, her action doesn't seem all that shocking. Four years ago, at the beginning of her term, Byrne had done a similar flip-flop, with less fanfare...
...rape or being called to the scene to see a man try to burn himself to death. But as long as curiosity remains a tenet of human astute, we will hear about these situations. And we who watch from a distance--who read the front-page stories and flip on our sets nightly to catch the film at eleven--can only ask ourselves: If we And been there, what would we really have done...
...best-known attribute, but Uncle Sam is becoming one of the greatest salesmen since P.T Barnum. Switch on a radio or TV set, flip through a newspaper or magazine, and there he is, in one guise or another. Here is the U.S. Postal Service, sniping at Federal Express, Emery, Purolator and other private-sector small-package carriers, boasting that it can do just as competent a job and make mailers "look good for less." Here is the U.S. Army invading the air waves with its stirring jingle, "Be all that you can be," aiming it especially at June high school...