Word: turnly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard continued to frustrate the anxious Pennoffense in the second half as the game took a moreaggressive turn...
Individuals are not the only ones eager to earn extra money. Under Deng's reforms, most state-run businesses and government agencies are expected to turn a profit. An aircraft factory in Xi'an runs a marriage-introduction center that does a booming business serving the needs of hundreds of well- educated women who by their late 20s are desperate for husbands because men with less schooling are reluctant to marry them. In Chengdu the Xinhua bookstore owns a flower shop, a hair salon and a clothing boutique whose manager gets his goods from "a guy in Shanghai...
...upset those who are lazy by allocating bonuses according to merit. They have their own version of the iron rice bowl, and they don't care if incentives will result in greater productivity and more profit. To a businessman their attitude is insane. But they are happy if they turn just a little profit, because they know that that will satisfy their higher-ups and that everyone will then be covered. Probably the only thing left for me to try is straight corruption...
...think it's not the same everywhere? Of course it is. Corruption is endemic. It's bad in China, sure, but I still say the mainland people are like Chinese everywhere else in the world: turn 'em loose and they'll earn % trillions." A capitalist's faith expressed by a true capitalist. The speaker is Tommy Quan, 55, a millionaire Chinese American from Seattle known as the "orange king" of Guangdong's Taishan County...
...movie's end on the other hand is strangely unsatisfying. As shocking as it is, the final turn of events seems too tidy a conclusion for such a complicated situation...