Word: everly
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...time. Last week--in what with hindsight seems like a heavy hint that Putin was preparing for greater things--the Russian-government website posted a long and somewhat turgid statement of Putin's beliefs. The statement was light on policy and heavy on theory. "Russia will not soon, if ever, become a second copy of, say, the U.S. or England, where liberal values have deep historical traditions," Putin wrote. Russians, he argued, are comfortable with a strong state, a more collective approach to society rather than Western individualism, and considerable government intervention in the economy...
...idea, as ever, is to make people feel that they have to have purposeless merchandise they do not want. In a restaurant, a waiter will giddily announce, "We have mahi-mahi!" A sensible person would say, "So what?" America says, "I'll take...