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Instead they were trying to plan a cool Yule...
...work in order to get rich. "Our government promotes the policy that some will get rich first," says Du Runsheng, the top party adviser on rural affairs. "Then others will get rich. Our final goal is that all people will be rich." The words kuaile, or pleasure, and yule, or recreation, have crept back into the national vocabulary. "Only with an adequate amount of wining and dining, fun and games," says an editor of the China Youth Daily, "will the workers' productive power be restored...
...three months leading up to Christmas, the workers at Apple Computer toiled like tireless elves. Dealers, bent on avoiding a shortage of the company's products, had ordered some 800,000 machines, nearly three times as many as they had the previous Yule season. But sales were weaker than expected, creating a springtime Apple glut of some 120,000 unsold computers. As a result, the company (1984 sales: $1.5 billion) announced last week that for the first time in its eight-year history it will temporarily shut down assembly lines because of a surplus of wares. Calling the hiatus...
...between the White House and the Washington Monument, it included not only the elaborately decorated national Christmas tree but also 56 smaller ones representing the states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. In addition, the National Zoo installed nine live reindeer near by, and each day a traditional yule log is set ablaze. That feature proved less than popular during last Thursday's balmy weather. "That's what happens when you have a weatherman for Santa Claus," cracked red-suited TV Forecaster Willard Scott, the master of ceremonies...
...time cash registers fall quiet on Saturday night, retailers expect to see a holiday season sales gain of up to 15% over last year. This would make 1983 the strongest Yule since 1977, and even that could turn out to be a conservative prediction. Says Esther Brunswig, manager of the Emporium-Capwell department store in Palo Alto, Calif.: "We're going to have the biggest Christmas ever. Everything is selling." Merchants ranging from Gucci in Beverly Hills to the McRae's department store chain in Jackson, Miss., are ringing up their highest daily revenues on record. Last week...