Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...businessmen first extracted it from the ground and refined it into kerosene. For years, the substance was used mainly to light lamps. Only with the coming of the automobile did oil become the most sought-after fuel in the world. Since then it has been the impetus for great capitalist enterprises, the object of geopolitical maneuvering, the reason for wars...
Another fatality may be baseball's unique antitrust exemption, which a U.S. Senate panel, in separate hearings, was threatening to revoke. But would a lifting of baseball's monopoly be enough to stir sufficient rowdy capitalist competition to save the sport? The owners have made the game such a tragicomic disaster area that one hardly knows whether to call in the Marines or send in the clowns...
...Only the victory of socialism can deliver the working class from unemployment and poverty. The capitalist world is crumbling -- the Five-Year Plan is driving in the coffin nails of world capitalism...
...Trotskyite friends were appalled. My unrepentantly capitalist friends were openly contemptuous. What had I done to provoke this deluge of condemnation? Not much. I had simply announced my decision to pursue graduate work in theology...
...From London, where Patten coincidentally got a ringing endorsement from his friend Prime Minister John Major, Zhu Rongji, the otherwise reform-minded Vice Premier and likely successor to hard-line Premier Li Peng, said the plans violate the bedrock 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration preserving Hong Kong's capitalist ways after the 1997 hand over. He added darkly, "People ask whether we have to stick to the Joint Declaration, or whether it should go with the wind...