Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fecklessly complicit: "The Bush Administration, absurdly, [has] closed its mind to any plan that would include a greater U.S. financial commitment to growth in Latin America. For Bush and his advisers, the sole solution to the region's problems [is] free trade." Oppenheimer does see hope in successful mixed capitalist-socialist models like Chile and Brazil...
...poor, are among the world's worst. But his comparison of past and present yields a more sanguine picture: the region is "one of the world's most important testing laboratories for the viability of democratic capitalism as a global project." Reid insists that Latin America's democratic and capitalist reforms are the right path; he notes that Brazil's poverty rate dropped from 43% in 1993 to 30% in 2005. But he warns that Latin governments as well as that of the U.S. have been inexcusably lax about using those changes to build institutions--like reliable judiciaries, for example...
...standard castaway plot.RR: What’s your character’s native culture like?US: It parallels modern society more than you might think. It’s the middle of election season, there’s an unpopular war going on, and it’s very capitalist, consumer-driven. So when people think they’re getting away from it all, they find out that they’re really not.RR: If you were going to be trapped on a desert island, who would you want to be with?US: That’s a tough...
...more traditional opportunities of IT,” said Khaire. “Each of the panelists is an entrepreneur in a different field, and will hopefully shed light on these different sectors and the vast opportunities present there.” The entrepreneurship panel will include a venture capitalist, the CEO of a telecommunications firm, the head of an entertainment company, and the CEO of a legal solutions company—all of whom are Indian and have strong business ties to the subcontinent. Khaire said that personal obstacles would also be addressed by her panel...
...Venture capitalist Esther Dyson ’71, who is also a member of the PGP-10, cited the project as an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of gene-sequencing...