Word: capitalisme
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Part of China's ability to avoid attention comes from its success in smoothing over the sharp edges of its image. On the economic front, China has permitted capitalism to grow beyond long-standing black markets, though these changes have mostly in urban areas. Its "Iron Curtain" is punctured by...
Some eras have been particularly critical for God's history. During the so- called Axial Age (800 B.C. to 200 B.C.), political and economic changes led to new religious ideologies throughout the known civilized world: Taoism and Confucianism in China, Buddhism and Hinduism in India, the rational philosophy of Plato...
The Russians, on the other hand, have never pretended to happiness. So pollsters there prefer to plumb matters about which the Russians have some working knowledge -- like misery. Surveys reveal that a growing minority, now 14%, feel they would have been better off if the hard-line coup of 1991...
Most revealing is Nelson's stark depiction of the huge disparity between her pre-Post free-wheeling lifestyle and the staid corporate life which replaced it. She tries to present this as a titanic struggle between principles and filthy lucre. In reality, it just shows that she fails to understand...
The tit-for-tat criticism of Japanese and American cultures defies value judgments. The most unrepentant in the fast L.A. world of high stakes capitalism is Eddie Sakamura, fantastically played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Eddie combines the sleaziest of instincts from both sides of the Pacific with a playful indifference...