Word: legacyism
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Demel and his government adversaries are both struggling under a legacy of neglect for agriculture that began with Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s, when the commonwealth began steering its economy away from almost total dependence on sugar cane toward a more diversified industrial base in electronics and light manufacturing. Some...
Several of Reagan's advisers think the President should distance himself from the House panel's bill and let it die quietly. They oppose many parts of the legislation, including the new maximum tax rates for individuals and businesses. But many politicians think that Treasury Secretary James Baker, a noted...
64 Children: the heirs of Deng's legacy Playing, laughing, sleeping--hardly the stuff of revolution. But the young stand to benefit most from the changes under way. A photo essay captures the faces of the future.
In Mandela's enforced absence, other leaders spoke out for the country's blacks. Most prominent among them was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the 1984 Nobel laureate, who took an important role in the drive to control the savagery of some of the violence. In July he saved...
Life is surprising as it happens but remarkably predictable in retrospect. Once time has conferred its brand of wisdom, even the least perceptive person can look back and recognize how one misstep of fate led to another. Thus a hallmark of growing older is the increasing impact of memory, simultaneously...