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...government is reduced to persuasion, propaganda, occasionally coercion. The new "responsibility system," with each peasant gardening his little plot on his own, makes children useful again; they grow up to weed, plant, harvest; above all, to take care of their parents in old age. Peasants who now begin to prosper do not want just one baby; if the first baby is a girl, the matter is very serious indeed ? girls go off and get married. Thus, a situation that the Chinese themselves find appalling and the government denounces ? the killing of infant girls...
...though the Republicans are abandoning the issue (its political expediency seemingly spent). Paige predicts the anti-abortion movement will continue to live and, perhaps, prosper. While the more political conservative groups had bolstered the right to life movement financially, the subsequent dissolution of the "winning coalition" has allowed the fundamentalist drive to recover some of its ideological purity. During the heyday of the groups collaboration, anti-abortionists had to struggle with the philosophical tension between their own "pro-life" claims and the Darwinistic ideals of the conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that...
...would play in the political life of the Philippines upon his return. Aquino spoke with certainty about the future for democracy in his country. "There was a strong democratic tradition in the Philippines before Marcos imposed martial law and there is no reason we cannot return to that and prosper True, we didn't have a perfect society, but then no democracy should have such a pretension. We can only strive continually to make things better...
...bedlam at Akihabara goes a long way toward explaining why Japan has conquered consumer electronics markets around the world. For Japanese companies, competition begins at home. To survive and prosper, they must turn out products with exceptionally low prices, outstanding quality and innovative features. If Japanese firms can outpace their local rivals, foreign competitors often prove to be pushovers. Says a top Japanese electronics executive: "Our target is not some other country; our target is ourselves...
...status has been good not only for the colony's residents but also for China. Peking earns more than $10 billion annually, or 40% of its foreign exchange, from selling goods to and through Hong Kong. Most businessmen in Hong Kong believe that their city will survive and prosper only if Peking agrees to some form of continued British presence. So far, however, Chinese officials have not convinced either Britain or the colony's residents that Peking also realizes how much it has at stake in Hong Kong's future...