Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people" of their choice. By 2000, all of China's more than 1 million villages will operate under the system. Some say these local elections are diluting the Communist Party's power. And the party leaders now have a vested interest in the economy's steady advance. As their Marxist ideology loses all legitimacy under the wave of money that has finally turned the country, after 150 years of sullen resentment, into a strong competitor with the West, their very survival seems to ride on their ability to keep the economy going...
...true market economy cannot emerge fully until the government does something about its ailing state enterprises. These decrepit firms, employing some 100 million workers, are swamped by debt, surplus labor and bloated inventories. Their out-of-date equipment and Marxist management, corrupt and incompetent, make them hopelessly uncompetitive. Half the 100,000 enterprises operate at a loss, and one-third barely turn a profit. At one time or another, half of all state employees have been furloughed or have had their pay or hours cut. Workers earn most of their income moonlighting for private firms...
...Harvard truly was committed to diversity, it would find room at the Crimson Inn for black conservative professors in order to provide a counterpoint to the Marxist nonsense preached by Cornel West and his acolytes. Instead, Harvard, along with Newt Gingrich, has bought into the fallacy that Jesse Jackson and his elk represent black America...
...past few years knows that the appropriate term is terrorist or narcoterrorist. As opposed to other revolutionary movements in Latin America, the Tupac Amaru has no popular support whatsoever, and has never controlled any territories in Peru. It is sad to realize how in Latin America, chanting Marxist nonsense seems to justify planting bombs, kidnapping, selective assassination and extortion. People who in the U.S. would be considered criminals and terrorists in Latin America become "guerrilla fighters," "rebels" or even "freedom fighters." What is Peru to do to solve the hostage crisis? Release 450 violent criminals, so that they can resume...
...would gladly put him in a choke hold if not for the armed guards, and suddenly he smiles at them. Strolling on through the cellblock, he sees an inmate weaving straw hats. "Those are good looking," the President says; "let me buy one." The inmate's reply is hardly Marxist: "Ten soles" ($4). He hands the hat through the bars, and Fujimori puts it on. "Pay the man," he tells an aide. "I don't want him to think I'm a cheat...