Word: agrarians
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...vote, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra made a highly publicized journey to Moscow in search of increased Soviet aid. Said Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a key architect of the Republican victory in the House: "Some people realized they'd made a mistake in believing Ortega was an agrarian reformer...
...magna cum laude Government concentrator who calls himself a liberal socialist, Huang Yasheng wrote his thesis on agrarian reforms in rural China. Its conclusions took a surprisingly critical view of the communist regime: Huang found that economic changes did not bring about the social progress that the government had sought...
...supply, so that prices that rise sharply at first will eventually be brought down again. Nonetheless, many Chinese fear that their bureaucrats, however liberal-minded, lack the experience to handle the subtleties of the free-market system. Deng has warned his countrymen that for all the success of his agrarian reforms, "urban reforms need greater courage...
...cons are opponents of big-Big Government, Big Business, Big Labor. This is populism with a twist: the original agrarian populists of the late 19th century wanted Government to protect them from the railroads and the bankers of Wall Street. To the pop-cons, Big Government is the principal enemy...
...economically neglected Miskito territory is a trove of timber and gold. Less than a year after they took power, the Sandinistas began to seize control of the area by transferring authority over land ownership to the state. Eventually they launched a direct assault on the Miskitos by proclaiming an agrarian reform law that, according to Miskito leaders, ignored traditional Indian claims and set up rules for giving Indian land to others. The Miskitos so far have received only four land titles, totaling 37,152 acres, for nontraditional farming cooperatives at Tasba...