Word: reform
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...decade ago, China appeared to be a monolith, but times have changed. After nine years of Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" -- economic reform -- two Chinas have emerged. In the relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most of the interior provinces lag well behind, thanks to stagnant state planning, price-controlled agriculture and millions of cadres clinging to Mao's rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province...
This month, when the 3,000-member National People's Congress, the country's legislature, meets in Beijing to consider speeding up the pace of economic reform, the disparities between the two Chinas are likely to become even more pronounced. One item on the agenda will be the proposed transformation of Hainan Island, now part of Guangdong, into a separate province with the mandate to become a capitalistic special economic zone. Both Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Acting Premier Li Peng called for further development of the coastal industrial cities and special economic zones, even at the risk...
...their rights in writing before they were audited or questioned. Citizens would have the right to sue for damages if the IRS made an unreasonable collection. And before seizing taxpayers' property, the IRS would first have to send out a written notice and then wait 30 days. Another reform in the bill would give new authority to the ombudsman within the IRS to issue "taxpayers' assistance orders." These could help prevent the IRS from collecting taxes in ways that create substantial hardships for taxpayers...
...meeting, Bok said the 18-page questionnaire on College life was part of his efforts to develop a "more systematic approach to educational change and reform." And Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said afterwards that the survey "will build a nice agenda for us to work on the next five years...
...newspaper cited Gore's "impressive record" in arms control, military reform and environmental protection, and called him "one of Congress' best informed members on the future of science and technology...