Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some U.S. athletes stayed away, seemingly more worried about minor injuries or the size of appearance fees than any struggle for national honor. The capitalist side was further weakened by no-shows among European stars more concerned with championships scheduled on home turf. Most East bloc stars came, but many wondered how long they would continue to enjoy special privileges, including subsidized travel, priority housing and victory bonuses paid in Western currency...
...Korean peninsula was divided into communist North and capitalist South in 1945 at the end of World War II. The two fought a bitter three-year civil and ideological war in the early 1950s and have remained hostile...
...eager to expand. West German suppliers, keen to see a viable network of small retailers, are advancing goods on credit and helping in other ways like donating old cash registers and display cases. The threat to the independent East German retailer is no longer the bureaucrat but the competing capitalist...
While most East Europeans welcome the torrent of Western investment, they often have mixed feelings about the changes that it brings. Some fear that the capitalist invasion may replace communism with a new and more subtle form of economic domination. Says Richard Gordon, a director of the Massachusetts- based Polish American Business Education Foundation: "There are still doubts in many people's minds about selling off parts of their national patrimony to foreigners...
Today the peninsula is still divided near the 38th parallel -- half communist, half capitalist; half dependent on Soviet military and economic support, half still reliant on the presence of 43,000 U.S. troops. But the old reasons for these alliances are fading. The Soviet Union is no longer eager -- or able -- to finance the aggressive extension of communism by its satellites, and communism itself is a dying ideology. South Korea has risen from the ashes to become an economic powerhouse capable of assuming most of its own defense against a diminished threat from the North. Yet the U.S. is still...