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...general consensus among Harvard's Sinologists is that China is moving into a period of continued experimentation. There won't be any new quotations from Mao Tse-tung to tide the country over rough patches, and those now wielding the well-worn aphorisms of the past may imbue them with distorted meanings. The most curious response to Mao's death may come from China's younger generation, which has never known another leader or system or experienced the turmoil and deprivation endured by Chinese in the era of imperialism and during the socialist revolutions--the same generation that, in other...
Southerners are working out a consensus between the dynamics of contemporary living and the values of traditional life...
...their auditors have been known to switch from one method to another, which would enable a company to report the greatest immediate profit. In an effort to provide more uniformity, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (F.A.S.B.), a body set up by the industry itself, has been setting out consensus guidelines for accountants to follow. The SEC, which watches over corporate financial statements, had generally been content to let accountants follow any methods that they themselves chose. But since the creation of the F.A.S.B. in 1973, the SEC has promulgated rules that in effect require auditors to follow the standards laid...
...most assets of all the possible choices, even though advisers pointed out that the poignant circumstances of Dole's first marriage and divorce might be as much of a liability as the drinking problem of Baker's wife. After an hour, Ford was satisfied that Dole had a consensus of support in the group, and the decision was final. The first to be told of the choice?after Dole ?was Reagan. Ford began zeroing in on Dole the week before the convention, but the only Administration insider who had a sense of how he was narrowing the field...
Shortly before President Ford's nomination in Kansas City last week, his Democratic rival Jimmy Carter met with advisers in Plains, Ga., to discuss what U.S. energy policy should be. After four hours of talks, Carter emerged to report a consensus: the nation still lacks a "comprehensive, long-range, understandable energy policy." Though that is a charge that few Republicans could or would dispute, energy probably will not be much of an issue in the coming campaign. In the 33 months since the shock of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, public concern about that issue has slid from white...