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...none of them are swimming. Life lines mark out the "legal swimming area" in which the water is never more than chest deep. Only a few of the more adventurous men actually swim; most cling to floats or the lines and splash about. Our swimming draws stares; the lifeguards warn us that it is dangerous to go out too deep and then asks us if we have any Taiwanese girlfriends yet. He speaks only the native Taiwanese language and very little English so our conversation is stilted, but he does manage to tell us that native Taiwanese swim better than...
...rule; for example, detained persons must be given a quick hearing before a three-person panel. When Parliament reconvenes this week, Mrs. Gandhi will seek its formal approval of the law, which was imposed by executive fiat. During what is expected to be a bitter debate, opposition members will warn that, once again, Mrs. Gandhi is taking her country down the road to authoritarianism...
...local industry (1979 sales: $2 million), has spent $65, 000 on a mincomputer system that enables his 22 employees to monitor and control every administrative and record-keeping aspect of the business. For example, every time a particular item in stock runs low, the computer is programmed to warn of the decline...
That many communities have come out in favor of the proposition is a signal of its appeal. But even its backers point to regressive and potentially dangerous flaws. The regressive-tax haters who designed Proposition 2 1/2 wanted to warn the legislature. But to many municipal officials, its passage represents a death sentence...
...recovery and growth that now prevails, but an equally unreal threat of an approaching slump. Indeed, economists who worked for Gerald Ford at the time complain bitterly that misleading and later revised figures for August, September and October 1976 may have cost him the election by allowing Carter to warn of an imminent downturn under the Republicans. In fact, within three months after Carter's Inauguration, the economy was expanding so briskly on its own that the President was forced to abandon his idea for a quickie $50 tax rebate...