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...preliminary report on retail sales for July showed them rising by an anemic .4%, indicating Americans are buying at a slower pace than in the spring, when sales were already lackluster. Administration planners had been counting on a consumer-spending spree to lead the economy to a 5% growth rate in the second half of the year...
...life is getting better, fast, for many Chinese. Industrial production has leaped along with food output. Early in 1985 it was increasing at an annual rate of 23%, a pace Deng and his planners judged too rapid. They ordered a slowdown to avoid shortages and worsening inflation. In Mao's days, Chinese consumers dreamed of buying the "three bigs": a bicycle, a wristwatch and a sewing machine. Now the three bigs are a refrigerator, a washing machine and a TV set. "Imagine," says a Western diplomat. "Some people living in the heart of Guizhou province now see the evening news...
...play at any time - for instance, trade and investment, uranium sales, human rights, tourist visas, students, intellectual property, military exercises, official delegations and Taiwan - makes for a great deal of bureaucratic and political work. Factor in the increasing intensity of engagement across the board (as well as the pace of globalization more generally) and it's clear that Canberra's China nannies are a busy bunch. A single incident or issue - hardball iron-ore price negotiations, the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement or the defection of a Chinese diplomat, such as Chen Yonglin, the senior consular official...
...where society's glitterati greet him warmly. He works out daily with the same discipline that guided his long career. The only thing that's changed is the way the 80-year-old does his daily push-ups: using a "slow burn" strategy of fewer repetitions but a painstaking pace...
...movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair. We've kicked away the soapbox. We aren't preaching at you. We also tried to shoot, edit, score and pace it like a feature film. We chose subjects who had, if there is such a thing, star quality. We tried our best to make the movie not look and feel like a documentary...