Word: capitalist
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...movie Major League takes this idea--baseball as a sport of social control--to an extreme, depicting a manipulative, capitalist club owner's battle to subjugate the players that she considers mere commodities...
...Current capitalist philosophy says that one man's greed will benefit the masses. Is Frank Lorenzo fighting our battle, the battle of airline passengers, against recalcitrant and over-paid union members...
Frank Lorenzo is not an innovative capitalist crusader. He is a violently anti-union, cynical man who sees the world through green-colored glasses. He wants your $29 to break the backs of 8500 machinists, to eliminate their jobs. He'll scratch your back if you scratch his. Don't touch...
Evidently Mikhail Gorbachev is willing to tolerate capitalist-style "contradictions" in his attempt to fuel economic reform with a dose of democracy. In any case, the heavy Soviet lid has been lifted, and the voices from inside the box -- above all, the voices of ever resilient Russian intellectualism -- are being heard in ways and forums unimaginable 20 years ago. If the democratic experiment has so far failed to improve the economy, it has radically altered the arts and the mass media...
...love with what I'm doing now. Besides, I do more good here. So far, I have had no bad flukes, so I sleep pretty well. But there are a lot of general managers in the Soviet Union who don't sleep well at all these days." As any capitalist would tell them, a little restlessness is good for business...