Word: authoritarianism
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...decades ago, the slum's misery would have raised few eyebrows. That was before Spain, dismissed as Europe's Third World backwater, shook off its authoritarian past and propelled itself into relative prosperity. As much as the quincentenary of its "encounter" with America, this country of 39 million is celebrating -- with justifiable swagger -- its breakneck pace of change since General Francisco Franco's death in 1975. Moreover, 1992 marks 10 years of stable democracy under Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez , a pragmatic Socialist. And it coincides with Spain's integration into the European single market, a source of pride after decades...
...medical school. "The first was, 'There's a whole lot more to folks than meets the eye.' This became known as the theory of the unconscious. The second was, 'Keep your mouth shut and you might learn something.' He changed the position of the doctor from that of an authoritarian giving orders to a more receptive role. Freud said, 'Let the patient talk and tell the story...
Even in business, Perot's authoritarian style did not succeed in organizations he could not totally dominate. After selling EDS to General Motors, he was for two years not only a director of the auto company but also its largest single stockholder. He made many criticisms of the stodgy GM bureaucracy that, like his criticisms of Washington today, were perfectly valid; it was quite true that GM took longer to design and produce a new car (six years) than the U.S. did to fight and win World War II. But he could never make the company move -- a bad augury...
Ramos talks of emulating fellow generals who have wrought economic miracles in Taiwan and South Korea. Ramos is mindful that the region's economic miracles were due in part to the authoritarian control that other leaders exercised while they effected painful economic reforms, and that it is too late to impose such measures in the Philippines...
...problem with Perot goes beyond his lack of political experience and his authoritarian tendencies. The question is more fundamental: What exactly does he stand for? And once in office, could we control what he would...