Word: ownership
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Evolution is revolution in today's China, as the great transformation of the communist system proceeds in the painful effort to create a system that works. Last week Jiang Zemin was the latest leader to order a retreat from one of the ideology's sacred tenets: state ownership of industry. Although he cloaked his decision in the semantic cant of "socialism with Chinese characteristics," the change he has ordered is nothing less than the last major step toward Chinese-style capitalism. Beijing will sell off the bulk of the nation's virtually broke state enterprises. Call it what they...
...government will keep control of a few strategic industries like steel and armaments. But it will otherwise relinquish the common ownership of production that has underpinned the Communist Party's claim that China is still a socialist nation. However much elders of the party might flinch at the crumbling of their faith, Jiang is sure to win endorsement from the 15th Party Congress, meeting for seven days in the capital to set the country's agenda for the next five years. The inefficient and money-losing businesses have become such a burden that the leadership can no longer...
...three-generational farm family featured in "A Thousand Acres" is increasingly caught in a war over the nature of property. What does it mean to own something, the film asks, and what responsibilities accompany that ownership? Can anything-land, lives, children-really be owned...
While the central debate in the story concerns the farmland of the title, the same questions of ownership and management apply to film adaptations themselves. Is the job of the filmmakers to mimic the source material as nearly as possible, or do they have the right to "remodel" the property? As Hamlet might have asked had he been a screenwriter, the question is whether to be or not to be "like the book...
...dogs that bite should be chained [LIVING, June 23], that is not the case. The data indicate that chaining dogs increases the risk of aggression, and thus I do not recommend chaining. A far better approach is to prevent dog bites in the first place through more responsible dog ownership, public education about dog behavior, support for animal control at the community level and reporting of dog bites. JEFFREY J. SACKS, M.D., M.P.H. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Atlanta