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Even if Deng's regime does abide by the terms of the treaty, its successors could easily reverse or rewrite it. China has proved to be singularly unpredictable in years past, with its violent and frequent pendulum swings from left to right. Clearly, the Communist nation has much to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: A Colony's Uncertain Future | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

In February, then-first-year law student Carol S. Steiker '82 told a cheering crowd. "The immediate objective is to abolish grades as a workable criterion for Law Review selection, and to force the Law Review to turn to a more rational means of selection."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Law Review | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

There is no question that this country has felt a powerful impact from the Judeo-Christian tradition. A great deal of the impact on the founding of this country, on the Constitution, and on people like Thomas Jefferson came from the Enlightenment, which offered a rational, ethical approach to government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices of Reason, Voices of Faith | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

The troubled decade left U.S. economists in brawling disarray. The monetarists, who stress the importance of gradual growth of the money supply to a sound economy, and Keynesians set up a clamor of conflicting claims. Members of the rational-expectations school argued that deficit spending could not work over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forecasters Flunk | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

Washington Citizens for Rational

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Olympic Fever | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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