Word: capitalistically
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...China. "He is an opportunist," says a Chinese political scientist in Beijing, "because he is bereft of any ideological belief and ready to embrace any ideas that suit him." That talent will undoubtedly come in handy as the very new face of communist China visits the headquarters of the capitalist West for the first time...
...mantra of the album is the refrain of its second track, "Good Life," where the women incant in a breezy calypso lilt, "I'm livin' a good life, no more trouble in sight." Beginning with their Calvin Coolidge duds on the CD cover, the ladies propound a hip-hop-capitalist work ethic throughout Brand New. Sure they are "Livin' good, like a Nubian Queen should," but only because, as honorary member Spinderella puts it later in the track, "I busted my ass to get to the cream...
...days of the Soviet Union, Communist ideologists taught the simpleminded notion that the bourgeois capitalist world was run by small groups of monopolists who manipulated governments and the news media from the comfort of their wood-paneled offices...
...during elementary school, I would come home from New York's Thanksgiving Day Parade and watch football, imaging content Middle-Americans watching the game while preparing for enormous family dinners in houses with backyards on tree-lined suburban streets. In short, I wanted to be Alex Keaton, the Midwestern, capitalist, conservative, all-American teenager portrayed perfectly by Michael J. Fox (a Canadian, incidentally) on "Family Ties...
...world today is one big capitalist playpen, and there are some pretty good companies in most corners of the globe. Want to invest in the world's largest pharmaceutical company? It's Switzerland's Novartis, not U.S.-based Johnson & Johnson or Merck. Have a taste for the planet's biggest food company? It's Netherlands-based Unilever, not home-baked RJR Nabisco or Sara Lee. Biggest farm-equipment maker? It's Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, not Caterpillar or Deere. Metal goods? Try France's Pechiney, not Alcoa...