Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said of the death of 70,000, and in his Great Leap Forward, at least 20 million more were sacrificed to a leader's theories. In that context, the man before the tank seems almost a counter-Mao, daring to act as the common-man hero tirelessly promoted by propaganda and serving as a rebuke--or asterisk, at least--to the leaders and revolutionaries who share these pages...
...positive values of our history," he says, "and combine them with the great universal values of the rest of the world." Perhaps realizing the burden he shoulders as one of his country's last hopes, he adds, "It is not enough to use these values as slogans or for propaganda. We have to live these principles for ourselves as leaders...
...only did Sergei Kiriyenko fall 80 votes short of confirmation, the opposition mounted a court challenge against his renomination by Yeltsin. "In these situations, people can become hostage to their own propaganda," says Zarakhovich. "The opposition may have gone further down this road than they had intended to." While dissolving the legislature has been Yeltsin's trump card, "the opposition may be confident enough of winning new elections to fight all the way," says Zarakhovich. "And this is Russia, where emotions can easily take over rationally laid plans...
...more effective method of attracting students to partake in an intellectual discussion should have been sought. Generating anger may be a sufficient technique for summoning an audience, but when you desire that group to appear at a discussion, applying a stereotype toward those that would show is a poor propaganda technique. The poster was clearly aimed toward "brainwashed, liberal followers." A person who chooses to attend this meeting may fear categorizing themselves in this classification, whether they view themselves in this...
...credibly with its own staff or with hired guns such as former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, whom Nike paid to visit plants in China, Vietnam and Indonesia. He concluded that "Nike is doing a good job...but Nike can and should do better." Activists dismissed his report as propaganda. Of course, if Nike can't reverse its recent sales trends, job conditions won't be a problem for many of these workers. They won't have jobs...