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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprisingly, labor has scored its biggest gains in recent years in work places untroubled by foreign competition. While government employees were virtually non-union in 1946, 37% of the country's 6.6 million public workers are card-carrying members today. "You don't import your government from Hong Kong, do you?" says Daniel Mitchell, a labor expert at UCLA. Among private- sector unions, the Service Employees' International, whose membership includes janitors and hospital orderlies, has grown from 625,000 in 1980 to more than 1 million. While that growth reflects intensive union efforts, organizer Andy Stern also credits the increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Growing Itch to Fight | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...people. What were once clear divisions are now tangles of crossed lines: there are 40,000 "Canadians" resident in Hong Kong, many of whose first language is Cantonese. And with people come customs: while new immigrants from Taiwan and Vietnam and India -- some of the so-called Asian Calvinists -- import all-American values of hard work and family closeness and entrepreneurial energy to America, America is sending its values of upward mobility and individualism and melting-pot hopefulness to Taipei and Saigon and Bombay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Village Finally Arrives | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

This smorgasbord of candidates will confront Russian voters on Dec. 12 in the country's first parliamentary elections without a Czar or communist overlord. It is a landmark the historic import of which is exceeded only by the confusion that surrounds the array of parties elbowing one another for a place at the table. On the same day voters choose their new representatives, they will also pass judgment on a draft constitution that dramatically strengthens the power of the President and opens Boris Yeltsin to the charge that he is less interested in building democracy than in consolidating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Parliament of Poets, Pop Stars and Priests | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Frank Deford's rakish domestic import, Love and Infamy (Viking; 516 pages; $24), is made in America from mostly Japanese parts. The background is historical (the Empire's plan to attack Pearl Harbor); the plot is driven by fantasy; and the characters, both heroes and villains, are shaped from durable polystereotype. On a Consumer Reports rating chart, the novel would get half a meatball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tokyo Bombers | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...Xiaohua was a cook in a Beijing restaurant. Today he is a business tycoon who wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch and owns two Mercedes-Benz and a red Ferrari. Ten years ago, Chen Xiaohan was a steelworker in a mill near Beijing. Now he manages a state-owned import-export company and drives around in a Cadillac with a mobile phone. Wang Guoqing quit his job at the Bank of China in Xian three years ago and is now a multimillionaire retailer, restaurateur and real estate developer who wears Pierre Cardin suits, Italian shoes and a $2,000 Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out for China | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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