Word: feudality
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Chiapas' campesinos are painfully accustomed to the iron fist of feudal P.R.I. chieftains, known as caciques, who make them survive on small hardscrabble plots. Land disputes in the state are frequent and usually settled with guns. But as democracy finally takes hold in Mexico--last year opposition parties won control of the lower houses of the federal as well as Chiapas state congresses--the caciques are panicking, and the killing has become more brazen. Opposition leaders blame police and the army for arming the sort of groups that hit Acteal...
...journey to South Asian countries. In the Ming Dynasty, Chinese navigator Cheng Ho led a fleet to what the people then called the "West Sea" seven times in the 15th century, spreading the Chinese culture to distant land. Only later on, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, [did] the feudal rulers adopt [...] a policy of seclusion, which hampered China's progress and its exchanges with the outside world. After the Opium War, generation after generation of enlightened Chinese people have spared no efforts in learning from Western countries advanced science and cultural achievements in combination with China's realities...
...reform and renovation. The fruits of ancient Chinese civilization were brought about by the tireless efforts and hard work of the Chinese nation. In the past hundred years or so, the Chinese people have waged arduous struggles to get rid of the sufferings under semi-colonial and semi-feudal rule. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, China's forerunner of the democratic revolution, was the first to put forward the slogan of "rejuvenation of China." He led the Revolution of 1911 to remove the millennia-old autocratic monarchy in China. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong Thought, the Chinese Communist Party...
That Ohio has two public school systems--one for the poor and one for everybody else--is no longer the state's dirty secret. Its supreme court in March was so outraged at this feudal arrangement that it ordered an immediate reform in the way Ohioans pay for education. The problem landed in the lap of a popular two-term Governor, George Voinovich, who must now balance the grievances of parents in hard-pressed rural and urban districts with the sense of entitlement of those living in more affluent suburbs. In sparsely populated Vinton County, where wages...
...deal with the warlords. The problem is that Taylor and Johnson will not quit fighting while they are making money off the war, exploiting timber and diamond mines. The West let this war go on until it drove Liberia back into a 10th century situation with a set of feudal economic dominions. One summit conference is not going to solve the problems." Johnson's departure follows a renewed assault on his troops and positions by rival Charles Taylor. Thousands of refugees, desperate to leave the city, have fled to the port area of Monrovia. Looting and gunfire continues as bodies...