The real estate registration system in our country had been improved in these years, but it lags far behind the flourishing estate market. Meanwhile, the system has many defects.

而我国的房地产登记制度与近年突飞猛进、蓬勃发展的房地产市场相比则相对滞后，仍然很不完善，存在着诸多的缺陷。

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The central characters' parents some immigrant and impoverished, others here for a generation and flourishing work as buttonmakers, have small factories, run flop houses, are fur-workers, real-estate operators, cigarmakers, grocery- and furniture-store proprietors, and, in one notable instance, the political boss of the Jewish West Side.

WSJ: The Old Bunch | Meyer Levin | Destiny's Children | Masterpiece by Joseph Epstein