Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's limited resources and risking an angry backlash. Beyond that, Teng and his cohort face a psychological problem in inspiring the masses. Having suffered through years of polemical warfare, many workers have become cynical about the system and are immune to exhortations and slogans. Middle-level officials, on whom Teng counts to translate his policies into action, constitute yet another obstacle to change. Many of these essential managers survived decades of turmoil by playing it safe. Some are still doing so, faithfully repeating Teng's modernization slogans while avoiding the decisive actions required if the plan...
...second important underlying premise is the notion that individuals have a right to expect certain services from government. In America, to depend too much on government is seen as a weakness and an inhibitor of freedom. At the simplest level, the logical development of this attitude ensures the freedom to starve or to die of ill-health, through inability to pay the doctor's bills. There is certainly a relationship between the values of a society and the form of its healthcare delivery system. Perhaps Europeans have less cultural and ideological inhibitions in allocating certain tasks to the state...
Attributing Britain's post-war economic difficulties to the introduction of NHS is too simple. We need to examine some of the far deeper structural problems concerned with questions such as the level of industrial investment in order to explain her declining economic fortunes, and that would take an article in itself. Furthermore, countries such as Germany have comprehensive health insurance, and are by no means in a weak state economically...
According to the FBI, that was only a day after Rifkin had dropped by the bank headquarters in Los Angeles and descended in an unmarked elevator to Operations Unit One on level D. There he talked his way into the wire transfer room, where he learned the secret code numbers?which are changed daily as a precaution?for transferring money between the bank and others, both in the U.S. and abroad. That done, he sauntered...
Washington's hope is that if the Shah works skillfully, he can still press ahead with his liberalization program, broaden the base of political participation, root out corruption and ease the social and economic dislocations that plague the country. Said one high-level U.S. official: "The Shah has to persuade the country that he is sincere in his reforms and that however much Khomeini may be respected, the Ayatullah's way would destroy the country. The Shah has got a tremendously long distance to go. He has never had to build support for himself before...