Word: furthering
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The budding economic energy has spread even further north. Six thousand people a day cross the Chinese border at Dong Dang. Going into China, they take mostly local foodstuffs; returning, they bring Chinese machine tools and kitchenwares carried on their backs, the heavy packages balanced at either end of a...
Although all land is owned by the state, a revised contract system between farmers and government cooperatives gives individual farmers control of the land and production for 15 to 30 years. Farmers grow what they want and sell at the market price. Largely as a result, Vietnam has become the...
For one thing, NPR is expanding its lineup of ethnic-, jazz- and folk-music offerings. In addition to Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, which for 13 years has featured guests such as Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach), two new shows are getting funkier and further afield...
A further apology is also in order for the removal of the real Crimson on Monday and Tuesday. Regardless of the content of the parody, The Crimson should not have had its property damaged, and the Harvard community should not have been deprived of reading the real news for two...
"Public interest has skyrocketed in recent years," says Robert A. Stavins, an environmental expert at the Kennedy School of Government. "A substantial number of Americans now list the environment as their number-one concern, whereas before it would be second or third or even further down the list."