Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Doerr was a Gore man, but he was taking down W.'s lengthy riff on education because he was impressed with it and realized that this guy could be a competitor for the hearts and dollars of Silicon Valley. By the time the candidate hit his stride, the venture capitalist's tiny handwriting had piled up into something looking like a ransom note. Bush could see what was happening, so when a question came about the Texas Governor's national ambitions, he fired his response not to the questioner in the crowd but directly at Doerr. "I hope...
...point is that this is a capitalist society and either you're going to be the owner or the employee. Either you're going to be the renter or the landlord. For me speaking to black America, and not being racist, we need to have our own businesses. Because this is how the Jews, the Italians, the Irish and all them founded themselves in America - by having their own businesses for their own communities: Made in the community, stays in the community. We come from a poor neighborhood and for us it was important to return to show the young...
...particular, Soros blamed the IMF for the Russian financial crisis of 1999, for holding the nascent capitalist government there to expectations it could not have...
...tide against school vouchers appears to be building: On Election Day, voters in California and Michigan overwhelmingly defeated voucher propositions by a margin of 2-to-1, despite a $30 million pro-voucher campaign spearheaded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper. In Washington, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Colorado and Arizona, voters approved significant spending increases for public schools, another signal that the public isn?t convinced of vouchers? potency...
...were to abolish Medicare, tax rates would plummet, the Canadian government would run absurd surpluses and the level of care for some would definitely rise. Individuals would feel like they're benefiting until they had to pay hospital bills; the economy would certainly conform more to that of a capitalist democracy. Yet Canadians tend to agree that the society would suffer as a whole if Medicare were abolished. For us, the benefits of universal free health care aren't entirely measurable by analyzing only the individual and the economy. Our collective vision of Canada as a society requires...