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...China's future: We will persist in developing democracy and a legal system. This is our party's unswerving policy. But achieving democracy and a legal system, as with achieving modernization, cannot be done with a great leap...
...development during its first year is far slower than that of a monkey or even an elephant, it is nonetheless so dramatic-from lying flat on its back to the first creeping across the floor to the first faltering steps around the corner of the kitchen table-that scientists persist in trying to pinpoint when and how it learns each new accomplishment...
...next stop, a Western-style nightspot, where Cardin-clad hostesses poured liberal amounts of whisky and brandy. Cost for the after-dinner stop, which continued until well after 11 p.m., was $360. "I don't like entertaining," says Nohmura, "but it has become an institution. If you persist in being a reformer, you would go to pieces in business. That, naturally, is something I have to avoid-no matter what...
...morality of America's covert activity in Nicaragua has become irrelevant. As is evident from your article "Uneasy over a Secret War" [May 16], U.S. operations in Nicaragua have clearly and irreversibly ceased to be covert. To engage in secret actions and be caught is one thing. To persist in this conduct after it has been exposed is something else. The Reagan Administration's policy in Nicaragua may not only be a failure. It also flies in the face of what Thomas Jefferson once described as "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind...
...mile-per-second speed law is in effect, so nearly two decades in space amount to more than 400 years on earth. The astrofamily returns to find the home planet ruined by old nuclear wars and the survivors barely able to reproduce. But basic physical and spiritual urges persist...