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...over the past five years he has seemed to defy gravity as he pushed his country's economic reforms further and faster than anyone thought possible. To his many admirers at home and overseas, he was the enlightened mandarin who single-handedly could break through the red tape and propel China's economy into the next century. Even Asia's debilitating economic crisis didn't seem to faze Zhu. In March he laid out a program for China to make its state-owned firms profitable, restructure its debt-ridden banking system, halve the bureaucracy and privatize the housing market...
...political fence, you recall the rebirth of radical feminism, culminating in the so-called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early 1990s were years of activism on steroids, when everyone and anyone with a cause felt justified in taking any actions whatsoever to propel their narrow agenda forward with the rest of their zealous cohorts...
Brody collects some laughable racquets, including one made from a tube filled with flowing fluid. Yet he endorses much of today's tennis tech. A larger racquet surface, he says, does help propel even off-center shots. And a thicker "beam" or frame produces more power and stability. "The extra length in the handle will give you something too," he notes, especially on the serve. (The higher up your serve starts, the better angle it has into the service box.) He's more dubious about the new ultralight titanium racquets. Although a lighter racquet is easier to maneuver, many players...
...four songs, by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel, propel the plot with lyric efficiency. But then, at the end, the racy Eddie Murphy spirit that has been held in check during the film explodes with a Motownish rave-up, True to Your Heart, that cascades over the closing credits. The song doesn't have much to do with the girl-power theme of this briskly enchanting film, but it's a perky parting gift from the Disney folks. The R.-and-B. group 98[degrees] and Stevie Wonder trade harmonic and harmonica riffs with some sassy horns, and euphoria saturates...
...Stanford was really exciting," said freshman Sanaz Ghazal after the match. "It was a huge accomplishment for our team. Hopefully it will propel us for the rest of the season...