Word: explains
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Naomi Pierce can't explain why she loves butterflies, but she does...
Some of the plan's supporters have said that its basic premise of "change-through-aid" was proven effective in America's postwar economic intervention in Western Europe and Japan. Many Soviet scholars, however, explain that a number of factors make the Soviet situation unique. Not only is the region in a period of extraoridnary political instability, but it is also divided along ethnic and cultural lines that make centralized reforms difficult. Furthermore, the Soviets may have considerable difficulty in establishing market mechanisms, such as a system of private property, after 74 years of central planning--a factor which critics...
Naomi Pierce can't explain why she loves butterflies, but she does...
...faster in the '80s than in the '70s, while productivity rose faster in the '80s. Besides, executive salaries have soared in the past 10 years, and it's the executives who decide whether to invest in junk bonds or modern equipment and technology. Theories of the global economy may explain a lot of things, but they don't make it any easier for a U.S. worker to live on Third World wages...
...defectors grow faster than a meat line in Moscow. Gus Hall still insists that communism is not dead, that socialism is as inevitable as ever, that capitalism will be destroyed. "The problem is not with socialism. The problem is with human error, mistakes of leadership," argues Hall, groping to explain the earthquake in the Soviet Union. "The system of socialism is still the only real, basic solution to the problems of capitalism...