Word: fondly
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...even as it suppresses its enemies, the government treats its citizens with the fond indulgence of a grandfather. It provides free education, free health care, and, for civil servants and young farmers, free housing. It also lavishes upon its residents low-interest loans, allowing them to buy so freely that there is now one car for every four residents. Iban tribesmen are flown to Singapore if they need special medical treatment; senior government employees are given free pilgrimages to Mecca. Despite its profligate habits, Brunei still earns up to $1.5 billion more than it can spend each year. Says...
Under the terms of the constitution, Hirohito's successor will have little opportunity to extend imperial power. Meanwhile, though most of Hirohito's subjects regard him with fond bemusement, some are beginning to suggest privately that he should abdicate. But the Emperor remains steadfast. When questioned once about his long reign, His Imperial Majesty simply recited a proverb: "Not even under the heaviest snowfall will willow trees snap." -By Pico Iyer...
They are asleep, just as they were when he left for work at 7:30 that morning. A few fond glances are usually the only contact Nohrnura, 37, has with his two sons (7 and 4 months) and two daughters (5 and 9) during the week. Like most Japanese executives, his day starts early and ends only after a long night of business entertaining. Nohmura earns $51,000 a year before taxes, which enables him to house his family in a four-room apartment in the outskirts of Kobe, a port city. Six days a week, he gets...
American parents are fond of telling their college-bound children, "We'll always need lawyers." Partly as a result, there are 600,000 practicing attorneys in the U.S., or one for every 400 Americans. Most Japanese parents, by contrast, are barely aware of the profession...
Wright's designs went out of fashion long before he died in 1976. The exhibition "Russel Wright: American Designer" (currently at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y., and opening at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., in November) should revive fond memories and be an exciting discovery for those who never heard...