Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because he despises failure, Museveni converted to capitalism. Africa needed to create wealth, he decided, and for that, nothing beat Adam Smith. Private enterprise was quite simply the most suitable means of modernization. Yet he remains at heart a socialist who would prefer a more egalitarian system. Although he understands how the economic world works today and he wants Uganda to be part of it, he does not really admire it. Even now, he calls Uganda's capitalists "cows for the state to milk...
...corporate history the same year, all thanks to Apple. It would be easy to read his return--12 years after he was booted by the board--as a moment of sweet revenge. But for Jobs, who grew up idolizing the Hewlett-Packard ideal of an egalitarian workplace where ideas came before hierarchy, returning to Apple is something akin to rescuing a son before he loses himself to booze and bad company. There has been a literal deathwatch on Apple in recent weeks. It had sales of $9.8 billion last year, but revenues have dropped significantly in 1997. Losses have mounted...
...forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even own the company...
...made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility as a two-way means of communication that attracts and connects militias, hate groups and wacky fringe movements. The profoundly American, truly revolutionary character of the Internet is fundamentally egalitarian. Everyone can take the stage online, even the nuts. But as the initial reaction to the cult's Web connection proved once again, the wild, unfiltered nature of the Internet presents a difficult quandry for the freedom-loving American society, particularly for parents. Like the content of television, newspapers, magazines, books and radio...
...made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility as a two-way means of communication that attracts and connects militias, hate groups and wacky fringe movements. The profoundly American, truly revolutionary character of the Internet is fundamentally egalitarian. Everyone can take the stage online, even the nuts. But as the initial reaction to the cult's Web connection proved once again, the wild, unfiltered nature of the Internet presents a difficult quandry for the freedom-loving American society, particularly for parents...