Word: townships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China economic reforms are real, already deeper and broader than Russia's. Deng Xiaoping initiated capitalist changes back in 1979, when he legalized farmers' markets. As a result, China's agricultural sector is far more productive than Russia's. Diverse village and township enterprises have spread what is effectively private enterprise deep into the grass roots of the country, in a way not yet imagined outside Russia's major cities...
...tranquil hamlet of Morris Township, N.J., knows quite how to react to the news. Cops had staked out Sunnymede for seven months; they moved in for the bust in early August, hauling off four suspected prostitutes and 15 agitated men, some of them corporate executives spouting excuses about having got lost ("I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," said one) and about having expected only a rubdown ("My shirt was on. My pants were on," said another). Last Monday the brothel's alleged madam, Judith Kelly Dempsey, 46, returned to her $1.6 million home from...
Most neighbors insist they had little notion of the scurrilousness at Sunnymede, even though Dempsey advertised AN AFTERNOON DELIGHT in Morris County's Daily Record and the Yellow Pages. Morris Township was once known as millionaire's row, and its residents value their privacy. But something always seemed different about Dempsey and her husband Robert. One Christmas shortly after they moved into Sunnymede, the Dempseys invited most of the neighborhood to their house for a lavish soiree. Champagne flowed in rivers. "We're mostly straitlaced Methodists," Elizabeth Smith says. "She seemed like a party girl. Not my type." Soon after...
Investigators have turned up a computerized list of the brothel's frequent customers, and the locals suspect many of their neighbors are on it. They say the township has lost its cloistered innocence. "This road is now notorious. People come to stop and gawk," sighed a homeowner as a car swung into her driveway, having done just that. "We're so used to hearing about these sordid things these days that nothing shocks us anymore," said Weinlein, the neighbor, "and it's sad." She cast her eyes around. "Pretty soon it's going to be old news. Things will...
...time Clinton graduated from Maine Township South High School and headed for Wellesley College in 1965, the combination of parents, relatives, teachers and neighbors who oversaw her childhood had instilled in Clinton a sense of family values that she has often cited as a source of influence for years to come...