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...another Asian miracle. Harder heads are skeptical, noting that the nation consolidated by Ho Chi Minh's heirs after the 1975 fall of Saigon is poverty-stricken and still at least partly under the thumb of ancient Marxists. Per capita income remains at $200 a year, one of the poorest in the world. Says Julian Reid, a director of Jardine Fleming Securities in Hong Kong: "In the medium to long term, Vietnam is extremely exciting. The short term is full of frustrations...
...hand, to clean the ice. So why do they stay here rather than seek out prestigious shelter in the West? Zmievskaya explains, "We want to be in Odessa. We would never have the money to pay for everything in America. Here our choreographers are free, the best and poorest in the world...
...same kind of politician he was andhe was the same kind of politician I was,"Vellucci said. "We had love in our hearts and wepoured it out and gave it away to the lowest ofthe low, to the poorest of the poor...
...differences, and the fact that so far both European and Asian competitors have almost entirely missed the fastest-growing market segment of all: vans, trucks and sport-utility vehicles. In the past decade, although car sales have been 30% off their 1985 peak and have suffered two of their poorest years since the 1960s, the truck and van market has exploded to 60% of car sales...
Since his election in 1989, the self-described "pragmatic idealist" has sought to persuade Clevelanders, from the white economic elite to the poorest blacks, that they have a mutual interest in the city's prosperity. One of the first calls White made after being sworn in was to Richard Pogue, a prominent white lawyer who headed the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. "I know you didn't support me," White told Pogue. "You know you didn't support me. But I'm the only mayor you'll have for four years. You're the only growth association I'll have...