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...Shevardnadze, an austere former police chief who was made regional party boss in 1972, when private corruption threatened to engulf the entire local Communist organization. With officials turning a blind eye, profiteers had, among other things, been looting several large factories and selling their products on the black market. Capitalist-minded peasants had been loading flowers and produce aboard Aeroflot flights to Moscow, where they could be sold at large profit...
...usual duties are connected with money--both the prostitue and the maid are commonly labeled low-class creatures. In a pretty devious way, a predominant feminine image turns out not to mix with a yen for money and the power, respect and independence (perhaps the highest goals of American capitalist society) that go along with...
...phenomenon called the gangplank complex explains why what was almost a capitalist fairy tale has had a predictable ending. This complex works strange effects on recent entrants to the ruling class. Once they make it on to the ship of state or of class, they try their hardest to pull in the gangplank to success along with them. As McDonald's reached Fortune 500 status in the late 60's, it turned its back on its entrepreneurial origins. Kroc had touted the franchising scheme, for instance, as a kind of popularization of big business, an opportunity to return...
...thoughtful, witty, and instructive without being preachy. They stand well to the left of Gloria Steinem, Ms. magazine and introductory consciousnessraising, and will convince anyone who still needs convincing that there is more to the women's movement than just the drive to procure a meatier piece of the capitalist...
...Operating Costs. Certainly, the Soviet merchant fleet is acting in the old capitalist tradition of clearing out the competition by price-cutting. The targets are tariffs set in "conferences"-international shipping agreements -that cover nearly all commodities on the world's trade routes. A conference member, for example, must charge $52.75 per ton for carrying kraft wrapping paper from the U.S.'s West Coast to the Far East. The Soviet price: $38. Russian ships will haul coffee or sisal from Kenya to Europe for half of the conference rate, machine tools from West Germany to Canada...