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This month, when the 3,000-member National People's Congress, the country's legislature, meets in Beijing to consider speeding up the pace of economic reform, the disparities between the two Chinas are likely to become even more pronounced. One item on the agenda will be the proposed transformation of Hainan Island, now part of Guangdong, into a separate province with the mandate to become a capitalistic special economic zone. Both Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Acting Premier Li Peng called for further development of the coastal industrial cities and special economic zones, even at the risk...
...biggest bucks (wernicks to you) come from marketing. Toymakers and schlockmeisters are peddling me via 250 items with total sales above $200 million. There are storytelling dolls, skateboards, backpacks, comic books, coffee mugs, party hats, and chewing gum complete with cards for bouillabaseball -- that's right, I'm introducing our old national pastime, fish and all. My favorite item is a T shirt showing me in X-ray glasses saying to passersby, "Hey, nice underwear." Haaah! I kill me! All in all, I am the busiest long-shnozzed, four-toothed, 3-ft. 2-in. creature with burnt-siena fur anywhere...
...that publishers may start offering doctors complimentary subscriptions. If so, he is ready to supply his Special Reports at no charge as well. That is hardly the issue. In a profession in which six-figure incomes are the rule, the cost of magazines has never been a big item...
...ship Navy, is Bush's heavyweight sidekick for the day (yesterday it was Barry Goldwater). When Lehman mentions that Michael Dukakis advocates saving $18 billion by eliminating two carrier task forces, Teeley, who has been sitting in on the conversation, immediately sees it as the perfect item to highlight Bush's speech at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Teeley urges Bush to add a new note card for his speech. Bush agrees and Teeley drafts four new sentences, based on Lehman's unchecked assertion...
...striped-tie mid-'80s, sales of plain-vanilla shirts hovered at around 20% of the dress-shirt market, down from a postwar high of 80%. Now the percentages are moving up again. For the past year and a half, the white shirt has been the best-selling item at Mark Shale's, and at New York City's trendy Bloomingdale's white shirts now comprise 65% of designer solid-color dress shirts, up from 50% two years...