Word: communist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Japanese economy is an issue of utmost urgency," Aso said in his first policy speech. China, which could see its GDP growth rate fall below 10% next year for the first time since 2002, is widely expected to announce a major stimulus package at an October plenum of the Communist Party...
...taken seriously by anyone, but could pull a Ralph Nader and be a pain in the ass enough to be accused of ruining somebody else’s run (Hey Al Gore!).Finally, we have Columbia. The Lions are kind of like whoever’s running on the Communist ticket. I don’t know the person’s name, but I’m definitely going to smirk a little bit when I see it on my absentee ballot.HARVARD (1-0) AT BROWN (1-0)If you had to pick a sleeper in the Ivy League...
...foreign direct investment that flows into China comes through here. Fashion houses, banks and law firms gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the past couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing, claimed Shanghai's Communist Party boss and a chunk of the city's ruling élite. Shanghai's benchmark stock index has lost roughly two-thirds of its value since hitting its peak last October. Even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real estate slide has affected tenancy, with...
...show the Cuban people there’s a different way to live if we cannnot travel there to begin with?” Mara I. Rodriguez ’08 said after the event. The recent graduate challenged Gutierrez, asking him why America’s relationship with communist China is different than its relationship with the communist island 90 miles off its shore. Gutierrez asked the audience to make Cuba’s human right violations the center of its attention and linked the country’s longtime and ailing leader Fidel Castro with terrorist groups...
...central government's response to the string of calamities betrayed the contradiction that lies at the heart of Beijing's dilemma: to preserve "stability" - and the rule of the Communist Party - the authorities had to been seen as taking action. The public was thus informed of arrests of businessmen and resignations by top officials, including a provincial governor and the head of the state food-quality inspectorate. But "stability" also means not letting the blame game allow its focus to center too squarely on the party. Within days of the story breaking, the state media was commanded by the Propaganda...