Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader, Deng Xiaoping. On the one hand, Ju's embarrassment of riches advertises the potential of free enterprise in China, where even the People's Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, has declared that "getting rich and buying consumer goods is not decadent--especially if it makes life more pleasant." On the other hand, the ostracism suffered by Ju highlights the difficulties of introducing capitalist measures into a state that for more than three decades has regarded the unfettered pursuit of money as a source of evil. If prosperity is encouraged in Deng's China, it is still not universally admired...
...public-address system last week, everybody listened. His 17,000 employees and the rest of Wall Street had been waiting four anxious months for the results of an internal probe into the check-kiting scheme for which Hutton paid a $2 million fine in May. "It won't make pleasant reading," Fomon advised as he gave a preview of the 183-page report issued last week by former Attorney General Griffin Bell, whom Hutton had hired...
...operate the huge Thomas Road Baptist Church during his many absences. He appeared as usual in his church's octagonal sanctuary to preach at the Wednesday-night prayer meeting. His message, | "Live Unto Him," was loosely based upon II Corinthians 5: 14-15. The week concluded with a particularly pleasant chore: mingling amiably with the 3,500 en- tering freshmen at Liberty University, his proudest creation...
...also applicable to the bars around Harvard Square: the hardest thing about them is getting in. But, while the presence of an off-duty cop or huge bouncer in from of big state warnings can be frightening to the neophyte Square drinker, the atmosphere inside most establishments is pleasant and easygoing...
...year-old paterfamilias, Charles. But as temperatures and voices rise, unflattering revelations occur. The internecine tennis matches are actually contests of will: "Bryan, a fragile 18-year-old loser, walked to the net to shake hands with his uncle. Ellen was so proud of the open, pleasant look Bryan managed to maintain . . . She knew how much that look cost." The wishes of Grandfather are, in fact, imperious demands; the grumbling about local workmen disguises arrant and irrational prejudice...