Word: egalitarianism
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...Boogie Nights, Dirk Diggler (a.k.a. Eddie Adams) is the champion of the American dream. When Adams, son of an alcoholic mother and powerless father, reflects on his sizable endowment--"Everyone is born with one special thing"--it is a moment that deeply stirs our egalitarian passions. His ability to come on demand is a legitimate foundation on which to base his worth, and in America, even Eddie, a busboy from the San Fernando Valley, can make it big. He becomes Dirk and rides his broomstick o' love straight...
...sure that there are thousands of women across the country who, like myself, would love to sacrifice equal rights and egalitarian relationships to get some respect from...
...civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian society...
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...