None of the resting workers yet know when they'll be going back to work, and some are now beginning to worry that their livelihoods may be sacrificed in China's bid to clean up its environment before it is too late.

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His reputation for arrogance in these and later jobs made it hard for him to find work in the government at the beginning of the second world war, when he was already in his 60s.

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