Word: li
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...China is now correcting Mao's mistakes," said Li Miao, a former administrator of China's Ministry of Finance. But while Mao's successors have disbanded communes and encouraged private enterprise, Miao said, the Chinese are not abandoning socialism...
...Li Xuling enjoys a right that is basic in the capitalist world but is still a rarity in China. The 21-year-old spindle operator is free to quit her job at the No. 10 cotton mill in the northeastern coastal city of Qingdao. Reason: she has a five-year labor contract with the government that allows her to seek work elsewhere when the agreement expires...
...Li is among the first beneficiaries of the newest and potentially most sweeping economic reform launched so far by China's leader, Deng Xiaoping. Beginning this week, all state-owned enterprises will be allowed to hire some workers under contracts similar to Li's. The change represents a dramatic turning away from the system of lifetime employment that the Chinese have clung to since the Communists took power under Mao Tse-tung in 1949. Says Max Boisot, a Peking-based British economist: "This is probably the biggest step of all Deng's reforms. If it succeeds, a lot of others...
Managers in Qingdao, which began offering labor contracts on an experimental basis in 1983, say the new system has boosted employee morale as well as factory performance. Li Xuling agrees. While her friends in permanent jobs earn an average of $27 a month, she took home nearly $60 in July. Asked if others were envious, Li replied, "No. But if they do get jealous, I'll tell them, 'Hey, this is socialism. If you want to earn more, work more...
...pool, of course, can replace the real thing on the West Coast. As the Beach Boys sang in their 1963 hit Surfin' U.S.A., "If everybody had an ocean/ Across the U.S.A./ Then everybody'd be surfin'/ Like Ca-li-for-ni-a." Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, 44, whose group celebrates its silver anniversary this year, bought a house near California's Rincon Beach, partly to be near one of his favorite spots. "Surfing is probably my only feeling of freedom," says Johnston. "My mortgage payments are not in the water with me." John Milius, 42, co-writer of Apocalypse...