Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...fact that capitalist foreigners were visiting at all suggests that the world's last great communist dinosaur is beginning to stir. As national alliances have been radically redrawn over the past year, the longest-running dictatorship in the world has found itself increasingly abandoned by the two patrons, Moscow and Beijing, that it has always managed to play off against each other. Pyongyang's sense of vulnerability was only sharpened when the Soviets, who account for 50% of North Korea's trade, established full diplomatic relations with South Korea in September. China, meanwhile, enjoys $3 billion a year of trade...
...theorists describe the hegemonic influence of modern mass media. Sociologist and cultural critic Todd Gitlin argues that the structure and content of television programs propagate materialist values and political complacency. Historian Stuart Ewen contends that American industry spreads a consumerist ideology through advertising to maintain the authority of the capitalist mode of production...
Three years ago, Judith Rickenbacker turned her Chicago town house into a laboratory for capitalist invention, international cooperation and entrepreneurial zeal. She did it by buying a sewing machine...
Stone's association with eleven different companies, including the Pittson Coal Company, provided an extra $187,250 to his 1989 salary from Venture Capitalist. Gray, by serving on the boards of four companies, supplemented her income...
...Middle East crisis, the transformation of Eastern Europe's socialist governments, the failing capitalist economies in Africa and elsewhere are of great interest to the group, organizers said...