Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gradually Rutger began to calm down. He took out his airline ticket and reread it approvingly. "Well, my friend, in just 10 hours we'll be in Managua. Mighty fine airline, Capitalist Insurgency Airways...
...Xuling enjoys a right that is basic in the capitalist world but is still a rarity in China. The 21-year-old spindle operator is free to quit her job at the No. 10 cotton mill in the northeastern coastal city of Qingdao. Reason: she has a five-year labor contract with the government that allows her to seek work elsewhere when the agreement expires...
Habermas said that both of these theories "try to derive all principles from rationality, but run aground on the complexity" of modern capitalist states. Modern societies change too rapidly for any social contract or set of fundamental laws to remain viable, he said...
More surprising still was an article in Literaturnaya Gazeta by Vladimir Tsvetov, a Soviet television commentator and former Tokyo correspondent. Tsvetov criticized the Soviet media's coverage of capitalist countries, which are almost always depicted as hotbeds of strikes, protests, poverty and police violence, as if those countries were on the verge of the proletarian revolutions that Karl Marx predicted 136 years ago. Privately, some Soviet officials are critical of -- and even embarrassed by -- that kind of coverage, and would like to see more discussion of the positive aspects of the capitalist world, especially advances in science and technology. Other...
...site is postcard pretty: a turquoise ocean washes against a black sand beach rimmed by coconut trees. The perfect spot for a resort complex, complete with a 130-room hotel, bungalows, convention center and gambling casino. That planned capitalist paradise is on the Pacific coast of Marxist- led Nicaragua. The war-torn nation wants to build the resort to attract tourists from the U.S. and Canada and raise badly needed cash...