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...Peking leadership once described China 's vast system of collectivized agriculture, in which peasants, grouped together in 52,000 sprawling communes, had to share their earnings more or less equally. In the past three years Peking has taken a great leap sideways from the collective idea. Applying what it calls the "responsibility system, " the government is returning much of the country's farming to individual households. The new system is gradually changing the lives of China's 800 million rural residents. The report of TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein...
...class, makes it pretty far across the historical gulf. The scenario is ticklish and one need not have a turn-of-the-century birth certificate to appreciate it. Another, Wanted--Short or Long Respite by Former Cineaste, a meandering through some silent film memories, just doesn't make the leap, though. And, unfortunately, there are several others which fall in like manner...
Perhaps more significantly, officials said, a leap of that magnitude might top the annual rise in family disposable income for the first time in more than a decade...
...Communist planners last winter abruptly canceled $2.5 billion worth of industrial development projects with West German and Japanese construction, manufacturing and engineering firms, it looked as if the country's much touted Four Modernizations program, which was launched in 1978, was about to take a Great Leap Sideways. Now it seems that the government is having second thoughts about its hasty budget chopping...
Gossip has always had a terrible reputation. A sin against charity, they said, quoting St. Paul. The odd, vivid term sometimes used for it was backbiting. The word suggested a sudden, predatory leap from behind-as if gossip's hairy maniacal dybbuk landed on the back of the victim's neck and sank its teeth into the spine, killing with vicious little calumnies: venoms and buzzes...