Word: communisme
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...center's efforts are perhaps most timely in Russia, where the recent coup and collapse of communism has heightened the need for new criminal legislation, says Thayer Lecturer on Law Sarah Reynolds, who is directing the center's Russian activities...
...plummeted from 67 percent to 55 percent in less than a month. Only his high approval rating in foreign policy keeps the overall figure above 50 percent. Voters who continue to approve of Bush's handling of the presidency like him for the Gulf War and the downfall of Communism, not for his domestic acumen. Bush's international successes are old news; American voters are more concerned with their own, more pressing, problems...
...will only benefit the wealthiest three percent of the country and would do nothing to help the 17 million jobless Americans. The supply-side economics that Bush preaches, as Presidential candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says, belongs in the "trash bin of history, along with communism." Both economic doctrines, which purport to help everyone, serve only a select sliver of society; the rest suffer...
...anachronistic ring, as though the very subject of the nation's spy agency caused Bush to slip back into the vocabulary of the cold war. That would be natural enough. After all, no American institution is more closely identified with the 40-year struggle to stop the spread of communism and Soviet influence around the world. Whether American agents were restoring the Shah of Iran to the Peacock Throne in the '50s, organizing an invasion of Cuba in the '60s, or applying the Reagan Doctrine in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan in the '80s, their real target was the Soviet Union...
That gloomy assessment reflects one of the great ironies of current events. At the moment when democracy and free enterprise have triumphed over communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the U.S. is paying the price of capitalism run amuck. Maimed by the prodigious explosion of debt that characterized the 1980s, the overburdened economy is undergoing a painful consolidation and a shift in values away from the fast-money, speculative practices that came at the expense of financial soundness and long-term growth...