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...slaughterhouse, meat prices may even go down. But trading in the commodity pits of Chicago has been frantic, a new pot of gold for plungers who bet on feast or famine. This cursed drought has brought them a bonanza. Soybeans, for instance, are now selling at about $10 per bu., nearly double the price of just six months ago. God must be a Democrat, somebody muttered near the White House. He surely is showing Ronald Reagan and George Bush, as he did all those who went before them, that the only workable farm policy ever devised was left...
Administrators at Harvard and other area schools expressed their concern about aggressive proselytizing, and Boston University went so far as to ban members of the group from recruiting on the BU campus...
...after he shaped a floundering garment workshop into a flourishing business, Bu Xinsheng of southern Zhejiang province was hailed in the Chinese press as a "trailblazing entrepreneur." His Haiyan plant became an obligatory stop for visiting bureaucrats and journalists...
Fame has now turned to shame. In January, with Haiyan on the brink of bankruptcy, the provincial government fired the 55-year-old entrepreneur as plant manager, charging him with incompetence. What had gone wrong? For one thing, Bu misjudged a craze for Western-style suits and ties. He imported machinery that could produce 300,000 Western suits a year, but by the time he got it working, the market had shrunk. Moralized one Communist Party official: "Bu was overwhelmed by the honors given to him by the state and the people...
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