Word: fabianism
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...surprisingly, local politicians and trade unionists have condemned the venture, which has chalked up 1,800 brokered deals, 10,000 registered users and thousands of hits a day, as "a slave market" and "grave threat" to the country's long-cherished social model. Its founder, Münster student Fabian Löw, 32, however, believes his website is long-overdue applied realism. "We start where the politicians stop telling people the truth," says Löw, who plans to go global in September. Wages in Germany are so high, he argues, that "it has been too expensive to create new jobs...
With the opposition in disarray, Marcos continued to maneuver. Among other things, the President last week announced that he had created a panel of military men to reorganize the armed forces. The move was regarded in part as an effort to allay U.S. restiveness over the reinstatement of General Fabian Ver, 65, a longtime Marcos crony, as military chief of staff. Ver is one of 26 men on trial for complicity in the 1983 Aquino assassination. Last week the Philippines Supreme Court temporarily forbade a special corruption tribunal to issue a verdict in the case. One military dissident dismissed Marcos...
...choice into public services will lead to unacceptably different standards of quality. But these disputes have always been "pretty subtle - the sort of thing you have to be a senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a Labour advocacy group. As the two men face tough choices this term on pensions, taxes, and benefits for the disabled, they can certainly bridge any gap between them - if they truly want...
...class at a British-run school and became the first person in the colony to attend university abroad, in Edinburgh, where, says a long-time observer of Tanzanian affairs, "he was captured by the ideology of the British Labor Party at the time. He is deeply involved in Fabian socialist principles, which he believed he could graft onto the fabric of Tanzanian village life." A lifelong Roman Catholic, Nyerere was also influenced by the social activism of Africa's Maryknoll missionaries...
...prominent Filipinos countered by petitioning the Supreme Court to declare a mistrial in the case against those accused of conspiring to kill Aquino. They argued that the lower court showed "partiality" toward the accused as well as "injudicious and irregular conduct." Marcos has promised to restore General Fabian Ver, 65, a longtime crony and the best-known defendant, to his post as military chief of staff if he is declared innocent. Such a move would seriously undermine Marcos' already shaky credibility in the case...