Word: capitalistically
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...area were boarded up, concealing the shattered windows and vacant shelves left behind by an orgy of looting. Occasionally, sprawled corpses could be seen on city streets, evidence that a tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most pro-Western and pro-capitalist countries. All told, at least 129 Kenyans were dead and an additional 100 missing last week after the suppression of a bizarre coup that, though it failed, cracked the veneer of Kenyan stability, which has endured during 19 years of independence...
...works, of course, Weirton Steel will have made a startling transformation, from one capitalist's prosperous fief to the principal U.S. enclave of-yes-a kind of homespun socialism. But Weirtonians think more in terms of preserving a place where rich, hard-working lives have been uncommonly possible. If there really is a way for every will, willful Weirton may just have a chance to live happily ever after. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Weirton
...since the Great Depression of the 1930s has an economic downturn had such global reach. The crisis has become epidemic, almost inescapable. It infects both strong and weak economies, rich and poor nations, capitalist democracies and Communist dictatorships...
...brought up business. My family played, slept, are business. Everything is like running a business. Running a household is like running a business...Going to the bathroom is like running a business," says the winner of the Adams House "Greedy Capitalist" Award...
...show biz and no childlike naiveté, she impresses as a red-headed homuncula. Her elders don't fare much better. Albert Finney, who manages a scowl that comes out a secret smile, has the right moves but not the forbidding magnetism of the world's richest capitalist. Ann Reinking, a terrifically sensuous dancer, has little opportunity to display her talents as Warbucks' secretary. Only Carol Burnett shines, as the shabby dipso Hannigan. Navigating the orphanage at a permanent 40° tilt, like a sinking lighthouse, Burnett brings all her comic resourcefulness to a part no more...