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...state of emergency should mean that freedom of speech and assembly are restored. But Zia will probably extend those rights selectively, using the Political Parties Act to weed out undesirable opposition groups. In what may have been a sobering harbinger of the future, police arrested about 200 people two weeks ago when the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, a coalition of eleven banned parties calling for Zia's immediate resignation, tried to stage a demonstration in Lahore...
Cuba is one of those low-slung New Mexican adobe towns, a wide spot in the road, really, up on the Colorado Plateau, insight of the Jemez and the Nacimiento ranges of the Rockies. This time of year the country is golden with rabbit weed and chamiza (when the Spaniards first crossed these parts, they called it tierra amarilla, or yellow land), and the deep blue sky above it has no ceiling. In the first issue of the Cuba News--"the first edition of the first newspaper ever printed in this area"--an editorial declared that "we believe by letting...
...quality-improvement efforts, admits, "When I first came to Hyundai, I too didn't think quality cars were important." But the new chairman made blemish-free manufacturing the top priority. To break down interdivisional barriers, Chung forced designers, engineers and factory managers to work as a team to weed out potential defects. Twice a month, Chung summons senior managers into a conference room at his Seoul headquarters to analyze reliability issues, sometimes bringing in a whole car and lifting it up on a hydraulic platform to get a firsthand look. Likewise, the company's 68,000 workers are encouraged...
...immigrant values as well. It may be an imagined past or an idealized vision of the immigrant present, but there was something about the earnestness of West Point that fit Pae snugly. "People think that because my dad's an artist, that means he's in the backyard smoking weed or something," he says. "It's not like that. My parents are conservative. They have a hard-work ethic. Very Korean values...
...known anyone who has a worthy project who’s not been able to find a thesis adviser to work with,” says Economics Assistant DUS Robert H. Neugeboren. “We’re trying to weed out those projects that aren’t worth doing...