Word: blocs
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Elsewhere in what was once the Soviet bloc, the road to capitalist democracy is turning out to be strewn with pitfalls, detours and an occasional reversal. Hardly anyone in the former Soviet republics or the onetime satellite states of Eastern Europe is openly advocating a return to communism -- by that name. But in some countries, the communists who now call themselves socialists have given up hardly any of their control of economic, political and social life. President Ion Iliescu rules Romania less brutally than did his executed predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, but with as keen a will to block all reform...
...between religious and secular conservatives in the late 1970s helped Reagan attract two-thirds of the white evangelical vote, the same proportion Carter had won in 1980. Some 70% voted for Bush four years ago, giving him a lock on the South, where white Protestants are the dominant voting bloc, and strengthening him in important Northern states like Illinois and Michigan...
...North American Free Trade Agreement may have been the easy part. Now comes the task of persuading lawmakers in all three countries to ratify the deal, which would phase out thousands of barriers over the next 15 years and unite more than 360 million consumers in a single trade bloc. Weary negotiators put the final touches on the plan by requiring that at least 62.5% of the parts for cars and light trucks sold duty free in the bloc should come from North America. The U.S. had pressed for a 65% local-content standard, while Canada and Mexico had initially...
Today, the U.N is simply acting with cowardice. The fall of the Soviet bloc has freed the United Nations from the restrictions of the Cold War and has offered it the chance to be a major force in shaping the post-Cold War world. So far, the offer has been politely declined...
Despite the strictures, it was not until the cold war that amateurism became hotly debated, largely because of the biggest circumvention of the code. Soviet bloc nations, aiming to demonstrate communism's superiority, poured resources into state-run training programs and put athletes on state payrolls, calling them teachers, soldiers or commissars while paying them to play full time...