60194 The shape of pounding stone is the same as in Japan.
60195 The stick is a long one like that believed in Japan to be used by the rabbit in the moon.
60196 Rice cake making is men's work.
60197 Alcohol takes effect quickly.
60198 Mothers and sisters carry young drunken men home as the morning dawns.
60199 Tough guys are still drinking in high spirits with yells of "Give me another!" and "C'mon, that's not enough!"
60200 The small village lives on cross-border trade.
60201 Young men come home from big cities, where they have gone to find jobs, to welcome the New Year, when they drink, drink, and then drink.
60202 The Straits Times, an English-language newspaper in Singapore, released on the 31st the "Persons of 1994," chosen by a poll of readers.
60203 The top person of the year was an American boy named Michael Fay, who suffered a flogging punishment for vandalizing a car, ahead all other "persons of the year," including British Premier John Major.
60204 Ten candidates had been announced in advance, from among which a total of 19,770 readers cast their votes by phone, selecting the U.S. boy by as far the top with more than 80 percent votes.
60205 Russian Vice Premier and Chairman of the State Property Committee Vladimir Polevanov, in charge of democratization policies of Russia, has clarified its basic principle of "Non-privatization and re-nationalization."
60206 This principle substantially modifies the radical privatization by his predecessor, Anatoliy B. Chubais, and attracts a lot of attention as an indicator of the economic steering in 1995 by the Yeltsin administration.
60207 According to the Segodnya newspaper dated the 30th, Vice Prime Minister Vladimir Polevanov emphasized, "We need the shift of governmental economic strategy, as well as stronger national leadership over businesses," and announced, "We aim to adopt a bill to re-nationalize the firms that have been inappropriately privatized."
60208 The Vice Premier cited as domains to be re-nationalized, aluminum, energy and munitions, stating, "The acquisition by foreign enterprises of 15 percent of the shares in our country and authorizing their representatives to serve on boards of directors, will pose a direct threat to the national security of Russia."