Word: feudal
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...reason behind the creeping coup was distaste at the slow pace at which the Prune Minister, Endalkachew Makonnen, 47, has been carrying out reforms. The army has agitated for change since February, when soldiers protesting poor pay and the country's feudal political system forced the resignation of then Prime Minister Aklilu Habte Wold, 62. They accepted Endalkachew as his successor and gave the new government six months to reform a country that for decades has been systematically milked from...
...spirit of the place is insistent with the presence of money. Set in feudal splendour cool and moist as the Snow Queen's summer palace in its perch upon the sea, it is redolent with sensual pleasure. It is also a monumental mistake built as if toward some transcendental point, and peaking in denial of possibilities even as it marks the exhaustion of America as a land still to be settled...
...running amok everywhere?and at a time of general peace. In the most recent twelve months for which there are figures, prices in Western Europe jumped 10%. Japan, the land of a seemingly nonstop economic miracle, suffered a 23% consumer-price inflation, its worst since the nation emerged from feudal isolation a century ago. In the Third World, price increases are as oppressive as ever, crippling the development plans of India, Pakistan and Viet Nam (where prices are rising at an annual rate...
...long in coming. Well-trained by American, British and Israeli experts, the 42,000-man army is a modern outfit with-at least for Ethiopia-modern views. Its educated officers have long been unhappy about the appalling gap between rich and poor and the inefficiencies and inequities of a feudal agricultural system. Last year drought, landlord indifference and government mismanagement combined to produce a famine that left at least 50,000 dead...
Confucius' ambition was to restore order to a chaotic society. The China of his tune, 300 years before the founding of the first dynasty, was torn by constant warfare among the country's greedy feudal princes, who were described by Confucius as "stuffing themselves with food all day while never using their minds at all." He envisioned an ideal ruler of benevolence, moderation and humanity, a type that he believed had existed in a halcyon era long past. While the bad ruler relied on terror and force, the Confucian prince would restore order simply by the strength...