Word: feudality
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...rejected a Greek request for a $50 million development loan, but that is the least of the junta's worries. Its own irresponsibility in financial matters, coupled with the inevitable decline in the tourist business and foreign markets, is returning the nation to the economic depression and semi-feudal society which it sought to escape...
State Rep. John W. Sears '52, who ran third in the recent mayoralty primary, supported Whalen, claiming that "the federal government has become the landlord" in an increasingly feudal relationship. Sears scored the Republican party's "abdication of responsibility" for the urban crisis...
...teen-agers in Teheran have joined the Transistor Generation. The ancient, withered men of Yezd are being taught to read. In Qum and Bam, in Dizful and Gowater and 50,000 villages throughout Iran, 15 million peasants have been transformed, almost overnight in history's terms, from feudal serfs into freeholders whose land is now their...
This is the hawk's feudal domain...
Examinations will be abolished as bourgeois and a feudal hangover. Henceforth advancement will not necessarily be to the smart but to the "ideologically strong," who will be allowed to jump a grade or two and graduate early. The whole educational system will be speeded up; university will be shortened by two years. Vacations will be abolished, to be replaced with periods of "busy farming." And to keep the student's life from becoming too soft, the "food level for all university students" will be reduced...