Word: capitalistically
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...Grasso was still winding up a speech that began with the American capitalist phoenix and veered into the necessity to "obliterate" its terrorist enemies and the countries that support them. A journalist joked under his breath that someone was going to have to pull him away from the microphone before the 4 p.m. close...
...late '80s grudgingly opened up to (as a talisman of capitalism), with heavy censor oversight. Just as China has spent the past decade trying to prove that communist capitalism is no contradiction in terms, so is it trying to show that defanged rock music can be the totalitarian capitalist's pal. (Take the danger out of rock and what do you have, if not a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial?) Arguably it has been successful on both fronts. The recent recordings of China's foremost protest rocker, Cui Jian, whose Nothing to My Name was an anthem of the Tiananmen protests...
...going to be destroyed anyway? When they grapple with these questions, politicians and scientists are often accused of playing God. On issues this morally and scientifically mysterious, Bush knew, humility was the better part of wisdom. He avoided playing national priest (relying purely on Scripture) or capitalist tool (letting the markets decide). Instead, he played lifeguard: These are dangerous waters, he warned. Mind where you swim when you go looking for treasure...
While an unabashedly capitalist institution such as my school might segregate foreigners through income, the Chinese government—the government that bats American spy planes out of the sky and would have blamed the entire West had Beijing lost the 2008 Olympics—does the same when it hires foreign teachers for its schools and maintains segregated prisons and dorms...
...Russians, the price of freedom has been a poverty unknown even amid the drudgery of communism at its wheezy end, for the wider world it has ushered in a mix of the promise (and perils) of a truly global capitalist economy and mounting geopolitical uncertainty. It seemed safe to assume, a decade ago, that the end of a conflict between two powers whose combined nuclear arsenals could destroy the planet 300 times over would leave the world a safer place. Instead, today's world is more dangerous than ever. The very power in those nuclear arsenals - once they confronted...