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...article, but I find it relevant to stress how the Bretons and Basques thrive largely because of the survival of their languages. More organizations like midas (the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages) must be founded to help the minor languages - and thereby cultures - prosper in a globalized Europe and world. Vinh Prag Arhus, Denmark Thanks for this fascinating article. As a London-based Cornishman, I'm surprised that you omitted the Celtic links between Cornwall and Brittany. Nor did you include the Catalans, whose domain stretches from around Béziers in France to Barcelona...
Given what has happened, her employees fret about the company's ability to survive; 75 of them have 50 or more years on the job. "One of my biggest challenges is to motivate and reassure the employees that this company does have a future and we can grow and prosper," she says. "Everybody sees what's going on, and it's quite threatening...
Most of the first leases were for two or three years, but they are now being extended, usually for 15 years and as long as 30 years on grazing land. Under a 1985 law the leases can be inherited. Peasants own their draft animals, and those who prosper can buy machinery; ownership of tractors has burgeoned from 90,000 to 290,000 in the past two years. Though the state retains the power to cancel a peasant family's lease and award it to someone else, that power is rarely exercised. Farm families are increasingly regarding the good earth...
...results have been phenomenal. Freed to prosper by hard work, Chinese farmers have increased food production around 8% in each year since 1978, about 2½ times the rate in the preceding 26 years. Variety has increased along with quantity; besides rice and wheat, the Chinese are growing and eating more poultry and pork (China has the world's largest pig population, though many are scrawny beasts quite unlike the corn-fattened hogs of Iowa or Nebraska). The biggest payoff of all: Vaclav Smil, a Canadian geographer, calculates that in China, "today's diets appear to supply, on the average, enough...
...unemployment. Hans Mast, an executive vice president of Crédit Suisse, agreed. Said he: "Unemployment in Europe has many demographic, structural and social causes that cannot be redressed simply." He also pointed out that his upbeat forecast assumed that U.S. economic performance would improve. "Ultimately," Mast said, "Europe cannot prosper unless the rest of the world is prospering...