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...problems of inflation have been defeated...the danger of any recession is nil." --Gerald R. Ford...
Fairbank begins with a stunningly impressive analysis, written in 1946, on the prospects for democracy in China at that time. They were nil, he concluded, not only because the Communists were more vigorous and popular than the American-backed Kuomintang, but also because "the inertia of tradition" did not permit Western-style solutions in China. Fairbank was of course right, and since that essay-as textbook writer, as target of the McCarthy campaign, as a mover and shaker in the field of Asian studies in the U.S.-he has stuck to his main theme. The great Confucian system of government...
That night Channel Five reported that the chance of another truckers' strike was nil...
...Union and other Communist countries has recently found fresh and juicy evidence of capitalist decline: the double-digit inflation now ravaging Western nations. By contrast, Red journalists crow, living standards in the socialist bloc have markedly improved in the past decade or so, while price rises have been virtually nil. There is some truth to that claim, but like vodka, it has to be taken cautiously in order to avoid losing touch with reality...
Television has a government-licensed monopoly over the public airwaves. The cost of "distributing" a program is virtually nil, and it is no higher for 40 million viewers than for 4 million. There is no correlation between cost and audience size. But every added magazine mailed through the Postal Service-another monopoly-means added cost...