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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent speech: "As everyone knows, journalism is a component of the party's undertakings and is its mouthpiece." Deng Liqun has also reinstated political indoctrination in China's schools. Peking University students must now attend two political classes a week, and most college students are required to spend part of their vacations toiling in factories or on farms...
Other series are less distinguishable from routine network fare. Duet, a half-hour romantic comedy, uses familiar sitcom contrivances to chronicle the relationship between a detective-story writer and a caterer. And Cannell's 21 Jump Street will spend an hour each week following the exploits of a group of undercover cops on the high school beat. Fox officials admit that much of this is hardly breakthrough material. "Have we reconceived the mousetrap? Do we feel any necessity to do so? No," says Diller. "But we will by definition take more risks...
...became institutionalized, even when the nation's economic growth flattened out and the middle class began losing ground. That dissonance helped to create Ronald Reagan. Americans bought the Reagan solution: cut welfare programs, or at least slow their rate of increase, to strengthen defense and give people more to spend through tax cuts. Says Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst: "They were uneasy about doing so because they suspected that millions of poor people would get hurt, but they accepted the Reagan approach because they agreed that something was badly amiss with the liberal theory of Government-backed entitlements...
...future. In Colorado, for example, a powerful issue in last November's gubernatorial race was how to handle an expected $434 million windfall in state tax revenues caused by federal tax reform. While the Republican nominee promised to return the money to taxpayers, Democrat Roy Romer proposed to spend it on education, highways, water projects and industrial development. He won. Says he: "I asked people, 'What's more important to you, another $18 in your pocket right now or a job for your kid when he finishes school?' The public support for state-government investment in the economy and education...
...themselves from their collective predicament. Former Teacher Harold Sparck sees the Bering Sea and its fisheries as a rich alternative source of income. Steve Constantino, 35, an attorney and president of the local Chamber of Commerce, is touting tourism and the lure of about 100 species of birds that spend their summers in the region. (He makes no mention of the score or so species of mosquitoes that share the turf.) Rosie Porter, the feisty editor and publisher of the weekly Tundra Drums and proprietor of the Porter House Bed and Breakfast, thinks the tourists ought to include the Soviets...