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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Take your medicine," the doctor says. But as many as half of all patients take that advice too lightly. They often skip doses, ingest them at the wrong intervals or even neglect their pills for days or weeks at a time, drastically reducing the chances that the medication will be effective...
...cases of hepatitis.' In fact, it is something of a miracle that there isn't an epidemic of the disease. Food donated to the students by factories and other work units was piled in the open. Nearby, garbage rotted in the morning sun, and by midafternoon, the temperature often topped 90 degrees F. City sanitation workers threaded their way through the clusters of protesters to pick up the bulk of the garbage, but a good bit got left behind...
...peak strength of 4.5 million to its present level of 3.2 million. The increasing prosperity of farm life means that the army has been forced to enlist more urban youth, who are more inclined to question orders. Despite such lures as family benefits and monthly bonuses, local officials often find it difficult to produce their annual quota of recruits. As a result, some | communities have begun to impose fines on youths who refuse to enlist. "Recruitment is even harder than family planning," a military officer complained. "You can drag a person to the hospital ((for an abortion...
...work their own plots and profit from the sale of their produce at market, but under Deng, the People's Daily remained very much an organ of instruction rather than information, to say nothing of debate. The doors of the Great Hall of the People were shut, figuratively and often literally as well, to the people themselves. Deng thought that China could have a closed Communist Party that would preside over an open economy...
With breaking news, TIME's correspondents often have only a few hours to report a story. But in many ways senior correspondent Edwin M. Reingold has been preparing for the better part of two decades for the Business section's special report this week on Japanese trade practices and growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. A native of Philadelphia, Reingold has followed Japan's rising economic star ever since 1969, when he was first assigned to TIME's Tokyo bureau as bureau chief. Back then, he recalls, most of what he knew about Japan was "World War II propaganda...