Word: feudality
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...Shah set about trying to transform his feudal nation into a modern state. In the early 1960s, he informed his ministers: "I am going to go faster than the left." His dream of economic and social reforms was shared by a new generation of intellectuals, who also believed, mistakenly as it turned out, that political reforms would follow. The Shah's ambitious reform program -the so-called White Revolution-included a number of laudable aims: a literacy corps, equal rights for women, nationalization of forestry and water resources, profit-sharing schemes for workers, and land reforms designed to break...
Yellen, a Brooklyn native who moved to the Imperial Valley in the 1930s for his health, vowed to continue his crusade against what he calls "feudal empires." Said he: "It has cost me about $60,000, but I'm going to keep at it until I run out of money or croak." He will have to battle more than the Supreme Court. The Senate has approved a total exemption for the valley, and the House is expected to follow suit. The Senate bill would multiply by eight (to 1,280 acres) the ceiling that applies to the other...
...British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington sent a personal cable to Saudi King Khalid expressing his own "profound regret" over the program. To some members of Parliament, that smacked of unwarranted groveling. Complained Labor M.P. David Winnick: "It is undignified to see a British Foreign Secretary virtually apologizing to a feudal state about what has been shown on TV in this country...
...Japanese variant of capitalism cannot be readily or precisely copied, except perhaps by a few Asian countries, because it is rooted in a homogeneous, hierarchical society with a not so distant feudal past. Changes are slowly taking place, but disciplined workers still display an almost mystical loyalty to their companies, and paternalistic employers reciprocate by guaranteeing job security. Leaders of business, banking and government are members of a unitary elite, and they have a snug relationship...
...House can take away our powers today, it can take away yours tomorrow. When the measure came to the House floor last week, New Hampshire Republican James Cleveland decried the arrangements worked out by the old-line chairmen: "They sound to me as if they were agreements between feudal baronies drawn up away from the public eye ... Who are the parties to these treaties? What fiefdoms are they floating around...