Word: communisme
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...three boys wound up in Sasha's clutches when they were cast into the street during the social upheaval that followed the collapse of communism. The ex-collective farmworker dresses them up in girls' clothes and sells their favors, given eagerly, he maintains, for as little as $20 a day. "I am helping them," he insists, flashing gold teeth set into a pockmarked face. "This type of work is profitable. The boys are grateful...
Left means right. (In places like the former Soviet Union, the "rightists" are the conservatives, who are most attached to communism -- in other words, the people furthest on the left. This is not to be confused with the situation in China, where the Communists are the most ardent capitalists around...
...think that is a true comparison. I'm not changing the very essence of a philosophy; I'm broadening democracy. It is not as if we are moving from the dark ages where there was no form of democracy suddenly into a new system. I'm not moving from communism to free-market enterprise. We have a basically sound economy. South Africans have been prepared for the final process of reconciling with each other, of becoming part of one entity and one nation, over a long period...
...year was 1989. Wielding sledgehammers, picks and shovels, thousands of freedom-loving Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, the symbol of Eastern isolation and oppressive communism. The same year, throwing elbows and fists, the Detroit Pistons brought the Los Angeles Lakers' hopes of a three-peat crashing down as well...
...June, 1993, on whether he might have visualized himself in this position 22 years ago: "I don't look that far ahead. I don't have five-year plans. I don't have 10-year plans. I don't believe in communism. It doesn't work."CrimsonArnanda M. DawsonPORTRAIT OF THE COACH AS AN AGING MAN (TOP TO BOTTOM): Restic being carried off the field after his 100th victory, against Brown in 1989; arguing with a referee in 1982; pondering his next play in 1984; and the coach relaxing in his Dillon Field House corner office last week...