Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is big trouble in Peking City these days, but even the party faithful are laughing and applauding at the Tianqiao (Heavenly Bridge) Theater. Reason: these capitalist roaders are stepping out on a new stretch of that irresistibly American thoroughfare known as the Great White Way. Since March, ten Americans, led by Director George White of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., have been working with 100 Chinese to stage the first American musicals ever seen in the country, The Music Man and The Fantasticks. For Music Man, which just opened, the Chinese took special pains...
...that starts at 13% for incomes of less than 250 rubles ($375) a month and rises above 50% for incomes of more than 500 rubles ($750). Since a hardworking plumber can easily earn twice that in his spare time, many people are likely to be tempted by the quintessential capitalist sin: tax cheating...
...makers of the jewelry receive two rubles ($3), and the sellers get 1.50 rubles ($2.25) for each item that sells for five rubles ($7.50). That leaves 1.50 rubles for Sasha as the "organizer." (Marx called Sasha's profit the "surplus value" and considered it to be the essence of capitalist exploitation.) Sasha says that in an average month he earns about 800 rubles ($1,200), far more than his 150- ruble ($225) monthly salary as a lawyer. "I am a biznesmen," he says with a grin, using a word Russian has borrowed from English...
Publishers from Hearst to Hefner have used the maxim "Sex sells" to highly profitable advantage. Businessmen in southern China were following that capitalist road until last week, when Communist Party officials in Guangxi province shut down 39 popular magazines and journals. It was the biggest press crackdown since the campaign against "bourgeois liberalism" was launched four months...
...concentrate on providing one service exceedingly well. While McDonald's may still represent junk food and throwaway culture to some people, many others are making a more generous assessment of the hamburger giant's value. Even Soviet television, which in the past has portrayed the hamburger chain as a capitalist conspiracy to sell tasteless food, broadcast a report last November that lauded a McDonald's outlet in Manhattan as a model of speedy and friendly service. Intoned the commentator: "Maybe there is something we can learn from this...