Word: shifting
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Chen has two sons and two daughters; his elder son and a daughter work in the provincial capital, Chengdu. His other son has gone south to the booming city of Guangzhou, where he works as a welder while his wife does shift work at a shoe factory. They send back $75 a month to the family. "Just about every family in this village has someone in Guangzhou. They say life is all right there. They have fish and meat to eat every day. Of course it is better to be in the village where you come from, but there...
Riding the critical success of Everest, IMAX Corp., of Mississauga, Ontario, plans to expand by taking this sensory overload to a megaplex near you. "The company is going through a huge shift from institutional sites into more commercial sites like multiplexes," says Kevin Skislock, a senior analyst at investment bank L.H. Friend, Weinress, Frankson & Presson...
...brought to China and what a brighter future you are building," Clinton told a gathering of elected local officials in the village of Xiahe. Of course, Chinese "democracy" might be unfamiliar to Americans -- there's only one political party in the world's most populous country. Still, the recent shift from having local government officials elected rather than appointed by the party, and the reduction of their powers, is a step in a democratic direction. "Party functionaries no longer control a family's access to rice or sugar or fertilizer, and that leads to greater freedom in other areas," says...
...even were we organized, those would not be our goals I assure you. I have never asserted that my election indicated any sort of great political or social paradigm shift as you seem to believe. I think it meant only one thing: Harvard students believe that at least one person on campus ought to be concerned with those elements of student life which daily affect them. I think it is fantastic for the editorial board, the Progressive Student Labor Movement, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club to lobby for whatever external social issues concern them. And I don't think...
...Still, this does represent a significant shift on the Swiss banks' part. For years they've only owned up to a possible $32 million in unclaimed assets that "could have belonged to European Jews or other non-Swiss residents." But the big bankers have been severely embarrassed by recent revelations that the Nazis stashed concentration camp gold in secret Swiss accounts, and that trade with this nominally neutral nation helped prop up Germany's war effort. Will $600 million make the bad publicity go away? Not if the victims of that war effort have anything to do with...