Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labbe visited. "It seemed strange to be spending my nights in air-conditioned rooms in guesthouses," he said. "Refrigerators seemed to be working everywhere. Sometimes I even found a bottle of iced Vietnamese or Thai beer. But there was running water only in Phnom-Penh." Labbe observed a flourishing capitalist-style free market in food and in goods smuggled from Thailand. Cambodians who buried gold and jewelry during the Pol Pot regime have now disinterred their valuables in order to pay for the rice, clothing and household goods sold in the markets...
...schlockmeisters seeking to capitalize on American outrage at the Iranian crisis make no apologies for their avarice "It started out as a capitalist move, I'll admit that," says Bumper Sticker King Rachelson, "but now it's a way for me to wave the flag." Hy Slater owner of Slater Corp. plans to continue peddling Iran through Christmas His reason: "Khomeini said he'd hold the hostages over the holidays...
...years China has cultivated an image of itself as a peace-loving society that had eradicated much of the violent crime plaguing the decadent capitalist West. No longer. In recent weeks Chinese newspapers and radio broadcasts have been so filled with detailed reports about pickpockets, street muggers and rapists that the country appears to be in the midst of a nationwide crime wave...
...this from happening again once the furor faded. This year the percentage rises in profit have been up to three times as high. If the government cannot establish an "all-American" oil company now, it will lose the opportunity forever--the chance to join the rest of the Western, capitalist, industrialized world in fielding a state-owned competitor...
...England's minister for energy noted in 1975. "No other government outside the United States has thought it wise to be completely dependent on the oil companies." But the U.S. would not have to explain a decision to participate in the oil industry only in terms of joining its capitalist comrades. It could cite home-grown precedents, too. The best is probably the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was a model of the yardstick competitor not only in price but in services and social concern, reclaiming land and replanting forests...