Word: headlong
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...Lowdown:As Chang notes, Dongguan is where the First Opium War sent China's Qing Empire on its headlong course towards eventual collapse - and is also where China's first foreign-owned factory opened in 1978. Factory Girls is one of the few books on modern China that deals more with the ramifications of the second milestone than the first, to Chang's great credit. For Dongguan's factory girls, the Cultural Revolution, The Great Leap Forward and the other injustices of the Mao era are stories from aged relatives and history books (As one girl asks another during...
...presidential campaign hurtling into its final weeks and a financial crisis that is gathering steam at an even faster clip have collided headlong, bringing a virtual halt to one world, and both confusion and the promise of catharsis to the other...
...Bequelin, and contributing to that is Beijing's increased tightening of control over the media and reducing access to courts and the petitioning system that allowed people in the provinces to bring their complaints to the capital. Those measures have left no avenue through which victims of China's headlong rush to development, like those who have had land seized, can express their unhappiness. "The pressure is building in the pressure cooker and there's no current avenue for it to be released," he says. "I believe we will see many calls both inside and outside the party...
...long after Barack Obama returned from his heady global tour last weekend, the contest accelerated abruptly and took on an edgier, headlong, take-no-prisoners tone. John McCain went from seeming lost and playing hapless defense to more focused offense. We'll learn soon how long that lasts, and at what price, but there were several days last week when McCain's team actually seemed in control of what passes for the campaign conversation. Obama saw his already thin lead narrow in a few places and was hinting by the end of the week that he might moderate his unpopular...
...Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (Telarc). Every decade Karajan tackles the Beethoven symphonies, and these new recordings of the heroic Third and frisky Eighth complete his latest cycle. Like his previous version, issued in the mid-1970s, these interpretations are forceful and decisive, fast without being headlong, firm without being inflexible. The Berlin Philharmonic's playing is silky as ever. But in terms of sheer kinetic excitement, nothing will top the explosive, elemental performances from the 1960s. Dohnanyi's Ninth boasts a strong quartet of soloists and is infused with the German maestro's unerring sense of structure...