Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Charles Hsu '96, the protestors were not only demanding justice for the death of the vendor but were also protesting the harsh and corrupt regime...
...true market economy cannot emerge fully until the government does something about its ailing state enterprises. These decrepit firms, employing some 100 million workers, are swamped by debt, surplus labor and bloated inventories. Their out-of-date equipment and Marxist management, corrupt and incompetent, make them hopelessly uncompetitive. Half the 100,000 enterprises operate at a loss, and one-third barely turn a profit. At one time or another, half of all state employees have been furloughed or have had their pay or hours cut. Workers earn most of their income moonlighting for private firms...
...economic growth and development, with wealth concentrated on the eastern coast. Regional interests and power bases are strong; there are massive disparities of income, and a decreasing willingness to contribute a requisite flow of taxes to the center in Beijing, since that center is often seen as both corrupt and ineffective. Periodic assertions of central police power can cow citizens recurrently but not remove deep-seated centers of unrest. At the same time, ebullient economic growth in many regions and sectors of the economy fuels a certain optimism, an optimism bolstered at the present by the incredible windfall of Hong...
...financial reform go? If our neighbor to the South is any indication, we have a difficult process ahead of us. Mexico is having significant troubles coping with the corrupt police and government officers that receive kickbacks from the drug cartels to look the other way and, thus, effectively support their actions. We can claim that it won't happen here, that the United States is not the economically impoverished Mexico and, therefore, will not fall prey to bribery. But the United States is morally impoverished enough to provide the market for drugs. The issue at hand is not the level...
Racism, fundamentally, is the view that a person's identity is determined by his race. In other words, it is the notion that race is responsible for a person's character, convictions and moral worth. This is irrational and corrupt...