Word: reasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political and social questions, 51 percent said they favored keeping abortion legal in all circumstances and 38 percent in some circumstances while 7 percent were opposed to abortion for any reason...
...have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...
...Beijing is not serious about its anticorruption campaign -- and given the regime's track record, there is little reason to believe it is -- it means only that, like leaders everywhere, China's rulers reflect their culture's values. So, just as the people engage in pretense when dealing with the government, the leadership in turn expends considerable time and energy of its own in going through the motions...
...shift that will once again confirm the Middle Kingdom as the center of the world. All these people know that the man is right because they know that the logic behind marrying dead people, to ensure them a peaceful afterlife, is dead wrong. The real if equally fanciful reason is that the unmarried dead are feared capable of becoming angry spirits who may disturb their living relatives. "Face it," says the stiff-burner, gesturing to the coffins now set in a common grave. "This thing we call a wedding is something we are doing for us, not for them...
...guess the main reason I was surprised that the demonstrators rubbed the leaders' noses in it," says a professor of Chinese literature in Guangzhou, "is that their actions were so uncharacteristic of the way in which most smart Chinese operate. The emperors and their policies change rapidly in China. As the old proverb says, 'In the morning, welcomed as the guest of a high official; in the evening, held as a prisoner under the steps.' To survive in China, you must keep your head down and be ready to change your allegiances and enthusiasms quickly -- or at least appear...