Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MAXIM GORKY...
...study, undertaken by Yale economics professor Robert Shiller along with Soviet sociologist Vladimir Korobov and economist Maxim Boycko, involved interviews with 391 people in Moscow and 361 in New York City last May. The objective was to compare the free-market inclinations of the two groups. Among the questions asked: Does a table manufacturer have the right to raise prices if the company can't keep up with private demand? Most of the Soviet and U.S. consumers responded just as Adam Smith would have: yes, the manufacturer ; should be able to raise prices...
...principal trade problem is not with each other but with Japan, which continues to run huge surpluses in its trade with both. If trade issues must be expressed in military terms, one maxim of sage strategists is not to fight two-front wars, if they can be avoided...
...sanctuary will be temporary. My values may be no more valid than yours, but at the same time yours are by definition no more valid than mine, and if my values hold, for example, that zoroastrians should be burned at the stake, your values (which might include the maxim, "Burning people is wrong")are relevant only to you and your actions, not to me or my actions...
...organization was founded in 1926 to study the gray matter of Lenin, and according to director Oleg Adrianov, it has since probed "many, many tens of brains," including those of Joseph Stalin and writer Maxim Gorky. The results of specific studies are classified...