If community spirit helped to create the miracle of Japanese productivity, the bully-boys who destroy it could be doing more harm than they realise.
"One is that workers persevered at the bottom of the mine for eight days and eight nights, enduring and enduring and enduring enough to pass through crux of their lives, and create the miracle of life.
Oooh, and then I went out and I bought these lovely pink shoes, and they only cost £199 because there was a sale, isn't that great?" And I have to admit that to create the miracle of pink loafers and to finish the day with a shoebox full of human life, all at a net saving of £1, is a really good trick.
Soon after that, he created "The Miracle of Greece," a photo-story that gained him an international reputation.
"We formed the foundation that created the Miracle, and I think the miracle was the start of the Reagan Revolution, and it eventually brought down the Soviet Union," Hoffman told a group of supporters.
At this stage, under the banner of urbanization, modernization, and economic development, land and space were commercialized under the collaboration of capital and political power (Burawoy 2000, 2006; Shen, 2007: 282, 353), which created the miracle of the Chinese economy.
The presence of a population of Spanish descent before the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848, followed by the arrival of millions of Mexican immigrants, braceros (guest workers), and undocumented workers who felt at home in California, has created the miracle of hispanizing that state and, its reverse, of Anglocizing the Hispanics.
How have we created the miracles in our lives?
Greenspan didn't create the economic miracle of the 90's, but -- to his great credit -- he didn't stand in its way.
Merkel appealed to the party's sense of history, saying that the same strength that allowed it "to rebuild from the rubble of the war to create the economic miracle, and to go from division to a reunified country", would get Germany through the refugee crisis.
I see this as a testament to Richard Stallman's work on the Free Software Project, GNU licensing and everything open source (AND the hippie idealism which inspired the first wave of hackers to create the software/hardware miracle that you're reading this on).
