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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zedong's birthplace, most people still regard private enterprise with condescension. While the province once benefited heavily from investment in state enterprises, some of those facilities have become a drain on resources. With local officials abiding by the directives of central planners in Beijing, state-owned stores are consistently short of both agricultural and consumer goods...
...vaulted into contention by capturing roughly one-third of the Southern delegates. In the weeks before Michigan, Party Chairman Paul Kirk tried to grease the way for Dukakis by arguing that whoever was ahead when the primaries were over was entitled to the nomination, even if he was far short of the 2,082 delegates needed to win. It was always an odd theory: anointing a candidate who failed to win close to a majority was preferable to the uncertainty of a brokered convention. But the party embraced Kirk's notion with such fervor that it may rally around Jackson...
...some or all punishment after conviction. Even more significantly, any pretrial pardon for Oliver North and his companions would have great practical consequences. It would head off the possibility that both Reagan and George Bush might be called to testify. Some think such a pardon would be an improper short- circuiting of the legal process...
Many enforcement actions are based on colossal blunders. One Texas taxpayer, who prefers to remain anonymous for fear of IRS retaliation, paid more than $22,000 in taxes for 1987 but fell a whopping 2 cents short of the proper amount. The IRS promptly sent him a bill for $400.31 in penalties. Reason: the agency levied the fine on his entire tax liability -- not just the missing 2 cents. The taxpayer is appealing the ruling...
...culture courses a roster of 15 prescribed classics. Many scholars regard those works, ranging from Homer and Dante to Darwin and Freud, as part of a sacred canon. But revisionists, including many blacks, Hispanics and women, want to build a new, theme-based program rather too cleverly called CIV (short for Culture, Ideas and Values...