Word: ex-communist
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...Commerce told TIME. "We need a more flexible labor market, reforms of the social security system and urgent reforms of corporate tax." If Merkel decides to push through reforms, it's bound to put her on a collision course with opposition parties, like the Social Democrats and the ex-communist Left Party, and Germany's powerful trade unions. "There's a wall of political opposition and Germans aren't keen on reform," says Treier...
...Kaczynski, a longtime supporter of the shield, said the crisis in Georgia - which, like Poland, is an ex-communist country turned U.S. ally - prompted the government to cut protracted negotiations short and ink the deal. "I believe that the events in Georgia caused the government finally to understand that black is black and white is white," Kaczynski told Polish television...
...engine room of the national rumor mill - ? Managua's landmark Imperial Barbershop. Since this modest three-chair barbershop opened its doors 35 years ago, Rodriguez and Larios have seated, aproned and lathered some of Nicaragua's most important politicians, bankers and powerbrokers. Right-wing former president Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years. Managua's Sandinista Mayor, Nicho Marenco, comes in for a trim every month...
...government official privately dismissed the three academics as an ex-communist, a radical Islamist and an extreme Arab nationalist...
...government official privately dismissed the three academics as an ex-communist, a radical Islamist and an extreme Arab nationalist. "What nonsense," said Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, spokesman for Human Rights First Saudi Arabia. "How extremist can they be if they're willing to work together? When these people submitted their petition, the Crown Prince said, 'Your project is my project.' But nothing happened. If the government really wants to say no to terrorism, it must say yes to greater democracy...