Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have got a person imprisoned or executed a few years ago. One of the first essentials has been to deprogram the deeply rooted suspicion of things foreign. Hence the Kwangming Daily's recent line: "It is completely un-Marxist to adopt the foolish attitude of being complacent and arrogant and of uncritically excluding foreign science, technology and culture. We advocate learning from the strong points of all nations...
Another movement under way is the rehabilitation of persons considered "bourgeois." Kwangtung Radio announced that at Canton's Rubber Plant No. 7, "six former bourgeois owners" discharged during the Cultural Revolution have been rehired and assigned to administrative and production jobs. This is a clear application of Teng's pragmatism: it is a person's technical knowledge that the new China wants, not his political purity...
...season, a father selecting a suit for his son or a sugar daddy eying a bauble for his woman friend will pull out a plastic credit card to pay for it, and the U.S. consumer will be $1 trillion in debt. Figuring that in an inflationary period the wise person borrows while the fool saves, the consumer has been piling on debt at a quickening rate, buying new houses, new toys and just about everything else. Private debt now averages more than $4,600 for each man, woman and child...
...special, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, is on view in the U.S. And, of course, the Muppets Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a garbage can, and the renowned Big Bird, who is 8 ft. tall and has not just an arm but an entire person inside him, have presided over Sesame Street since that wonderfully imaginative children's show began ten years...
...dinner table with somebody in the same business from Denver and New York and they learn how much they have in common, I think that helps jell a nation. I really do." A convention can be a profession's jungle drums, an industry's family reunion, a young person's rite of passage into the adult world of commercial or professional comradeship. A convention can also be a fresh opportunity to display talent, knowledge, oratorical skill or sales records, to reaffirm one's wealth and worthiness in the eyes of the world. No wonder 26 million Americans this year have...