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Soviet society is increasingly bourgeois. By contrast, the Chinese are devoid of luxuries; they do not have motor scooters and are far behind the Russians in refrigerators and television sets (which in China are still mostly owned by communes, factories and other organized groups). But China is ahead of the Russians in some material areas, especially those not requiring modern, heavy industry. The quality and variety of many consumer goods in Shanghai's Number One Department Store exceed that found in Moscow's massive GUM. Food (a Chinese fixation) seems to be more plentiful than in the Soviet...
...poker and shoot craps-things that I was born doing." She was then sent to an Army camp where, she complains, "they had us getting up at 5 in the morning cooking for the goddam WACs." She got out of that by becoming a truck driver even after the motor-pool officer "checked me out on a six-by-six, and I ground the gears and choked it and screwed...
There is also a deflation in plans for hiring the hard-core unemployed. Ford Motor Co. had pledged to hire 1,800 lowincome, unskilled workers in the year ending this June; so far it has taken on only about 750. Among the other firms that have reduced their hard-core hiring programs are Gulf Oil and Burlington Industries. Early retirement is another increasingly common device to reduce costs. After eligibility for under-65 retirement programs was temporarily widened late last year at Eastman Kodak and IBM, some 3,700 employees from the two companies took advantage of it. More...
Growing protectionist tendencies for finished goods in the United States and a rapidly increasing foreign debt have caused the Brazilian government to attract American firms to manufacture components for export and assembly elsewhere. The Ford Motor Company has decided to transfer its production of motors for Pinto models to Brazil in order to avoid high labor and tax costs in Britain, Alves pointed...
...expectations for themselves. Mrs. Sharlene Pugh of Detroit recalls that when she became interested in math as a child, "people naturally expected I would want to become a teacher." Against the advice of friends and family, she decided that she wanted nothing of the kind. Instead she joined Ford Motor Co., impressed superiors with her computer skills, and is now a highly paid systems specialist. On the other hand, it is true that relatively few women have been willing to invest the grinding extra hours and display the single-minded determination necessary to make it to the top in much...