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...Stability above all else." Ten years after the tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square, that was President Jiang Zemin's directive, echoing through the state-run newspapers, and it seems to be the theme of a few tense days during which Beijing is determined to snip the fuse of protest before it burns too brightly. A Hong Kong-based human rights watchdog reports that authorities have questioned nearly 100 people to warn them against holding any memorials or demonstrations, and have kept at least 34 of them in detention. Police have paid visits to homes of parents who lost sons...
Corporate Korea may also be getting the message that it needs to change. The Housing & Commercial Bank, for example, was a clunky, state-run institution until two years ago and the only bank in Korea allowed to make mortgage loans to home buyers. Lending money used to be a relaxed affair. Loan officers decided what a property was worth after a quick look at the house and a chat with the owner or a local real estate agent. Assessments were so rough that the bank could count just 30% of the assessed home value as collateral, and could only lend...
...addition, the Department of Justice has charged Fisher with orchestrating an illegal kickback and referral program that directed business to the Millers' Shasta Pharmacy. According to the press release, the scheme resulted in more than $1 million of improper drug billings to Medi-Cal, the state-run health care system...
...secrets to the Soviet Union's repeated success in various Olympic sports was that the country's state-run system allowed the government to go into preschools and scout out children with particularly good motor and balancing skills-and then, after interviewing the children's parents to see if their body types were conducive to a particular sport, to begin training the children immediately. It's easy to use this fact as a way of showing the failure of communism to recognize personal liberties. But all we have to do is create a market for such performers in America...
...decided not to run for reelection, telling RTE, the state-run radio network, that the office depended on vitality, and "I've given what I could...