Word: deliveryism
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The Pakistani military, which takes delivery of the arms shipments at Karachi and other ports of entry, is keeping some equipment for itself.
Deng's reforms abolished the communes and replaced them with a contract system. Though the state continues to own all land, it leases plots, mostly to individual families. Rent is paid by delivery of a set quantity of rice, wheat or whatever to the state at a fixed price. But...
Bystanders stared in wonder last summer as the fleet of 20 midnight-blue Cadillacs arrived in downtown Peking amid the clutter of buses and bicycles. The limousines, complete with built-in bars and TV sets, were the newest showpiece of an enterprise that is as remarkable in China as the...
London Match brings Samson, the weather-beaten fieldman, back from Mexico City and Berlin to fester among intelligence bureaucrats in England. Stinnes must be debriefed if he is not a plant and foiled if he is. Samson, under suspicion because of Fiona's bad behavior, gets the assignment. He is...
Perhaps most disturbing of all, the new test measured only bedrock inability to read, with no attempt to establish the number of U.S. adults who, although technically literate, cannot read well enough to function as successful citizens. Such a measure of functional illiteracy, say Barnes and other experts, would be...