Word: free-market
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Neoconservatives, though few in number, wield influence by providing a modern, intellectual gloss to free-market arguments. Generally, they backed Reagan. Yet now, one of their leading advocates, Irving Kristol, decries the "intellectual vacuum within the Republican Party" and predicts a "decade of continuous frustration" for the movement...
...Violeta Chamorro has an opportunity to re-form her country on a more democratic and more free-market model. The privatization of state assets and the allowance of discourse, political dissent and religious activity will breathe new life into her country...
...Central Committee embrace the shift to free-market measures that is transforming other communist states. "Nobody should dream that we are going toward capitalism," growled Castro. "On the contrary, we have to socialize progressively." The committee's new program is actually a continuation of the "rectification of errors" campaign launched in 1986 to reverse the modest free-market reforms instituted in the mid-1980s. Castro abandoned that experiment, complaining angrily that it had produced skyrocketing prices and corruption...
...East bloc for about 90% of its imports and exports. This trade is based mainly on barter, not cash, and on terms heavily skewed in Cuba's favor: the Soviets, for example, buy Cuban sugar at about four times the market price. But as East bloc countries move toward free-market economies, they are seriously reassessing their ties with Cuba, which cannot pay in the hard currency that Western customers offer...
...environmentalists, the prime suspect in the White House's go-slow approach is chief of staff John Sununu, whose free-market principles put industrial growth ahead of Government regulation...