Word: statistical
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...runoff, he has a reasonable chance of returning to office, but he faces a daunting battle to survive the first cut. His approval ratings barely make it into two digits, his policies are under siege, and his health is shaky. He has succeeded in wrenching his nation from its statist past, but he has failed to shove it into a stable and prosperous capitalist future. Corruption, chaotic change and arbitrary rules are exploited by criminals and a class of well-connected nouveau riche, while ordinary Russians seethe over lost jobs, unpaid wages and a widening gap between rich and poor...
Candidate Clinton promised to be a New Democrat, free from the statist left wing of the party. But President Clinton, with the notable exception of NAFTA, has opted to fight the free market and pursue an interventionist economic agenda...
...admittedly very difficult to "do something" while relying on the free market and trying to curb the statist Leviathan. But that is the narrow bridge on which the conservatives will have to fight. It is not a matter of being "kinder and gentler" but smarter and more imaginative. At present, the challenge is best met by Jack Kemp and Co., who are developing new forms of interaction between the public and private spheres, more individual autonomy without setting the individual adrift. That is, of course, the "New Paradigm" (but won't somebody please invent a less clunky label...
After almost two years at the helm, Salinas can claim some success. On the economic front, he has launched a campaign to reduce Mexico's bloated statist economy and attract foreign investment that has earned high marks from Mexican businessmen and international lenders. But in throwing the country open to inspection by potential investors, Salinas has unwittingly invited scrutiny of the other major prong of his modernization drive: his pledge to build a true multiparty democracy...
...help. These may range from vouchers to enterprise zones to tenant ownership of housing projects. The principle of combining social responsibility with individual initiative, compassion with reward for effort, suggests that the U.S. must partially reinvent capitalism -- and do a more imaginative job of it than the heavily welfare-statist economies of Europe that are increasingly retreating from socialism...