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...tireless jaunts around the country to acquaint firms with Chinese investment opportunities. At one Washington gathering, CITIC lined up $60 million of new business. In his talks, Ding is careful to soothe any fears about China's future. Says he: "China's open-door policy is not a transient expedient. It will not be changed in this century, or in the first 50 years of the next century. The investment environment can only improve...
This was some time back, Betty Jane Curry was explaining, "back in the hippie days." A long-haired transient blew through town--the little town of Cuba in the mountains of northwestern New Mexico--and made the fatal mistake of sexually assaulting one of Cuba's young women. Betty Jane and her colleagues on the local paper, the Cuba News thought this worthy of note, especially after a knot of vengeful Cubans had their way with the vagrant. Trouble followed publication. As Betty Jane put it: "The local fellows didn't like it at all that we printed their names...
...first category is what I would call transient poverty. A person loses their job, there's a divorce, a mother with children is without jobs and not on welfare, and is caught in poverty. And if you look at the vast majority of the people who are poor right now [UNINTELLIGIBLE], more accurately if you look at the vast majority of people who for the first time showed up as under the poverty line this year, the substantial majority of them will not be poor two years from now. And then there is a rather different set of people...
...Mydans learned the moral dimension of photography. No eye cast upon the hardships of those years could afterward decline into a tool for pretty picturemaking. A natural storyteller, he also learned with the FSA to look for his story in faces, in the unsettled gaze of transient cotton choppers and the cocksure grins of oilfield roustabouts...
...study, financed by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), in Bethesda, Md., involved 1,377 patients at 71 leading medical centers in such cities as Budapest, Kyoto and Cleveland. Each of the subjects had experienced either a minor stroke or warning signals known as transient ischemic attacks. Such attacks, which may result in dizzy spells, temporary loss of vision or speech, or numbness in a hand or limb, signal that arteries supplying various parts of the brain have become narrowed and a stroke may be imminent...