Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...gubernatorial candidate is Dennis Steele, 42, a hulking Carhartt-clad fifth generation Vermonter and entrepreneur. He owns Radio Free Vermont, an Internet radio station, and honchos an online venture called ChessManiac.com. Steele says that, if elected, his first act in office would be to bring home Vermont's National Guard from overseas deployments. "I see my kids going off to fight in wars for empire 10, 15, 20 years from now," said Steele, who served three years in the U.S. Army. "People in Vermont in general are very antiwar, and all their faith was in Obama to end the wars...
...Hawaiian island of Maui. She says, "We want limited government, fiscal responsibility, free-market principles and transparency. We are tired of government taking over our freedom." Marques, who attended the huge September 2009 Tea Party rally in Washington, believes that Obama's oratory and agenda will push the nation closer to socialism. A physician's assistant, she says, "We can use the market to bring health care costs down. Get government out of the way, then we can choose." The button on her black sweatshirt makes a similar point. It reads, "Tea Party Patriot," with an image of patriots throwing...
...saying he wished to "dismiss the unnecessary, unwarranted and inflammatory comments circulating which suggest a coup might be needed to pull the country out of a constitutional crisis in Yar'Adua's absence. A military coup would be akin to dragging us back to the dark days of our nation's history." He acknowledged, however, that "there is tension in the country, everybody knows that." Chief of Defense Staff, Air Marshal Paul Dike, seemed to suggest that tension involved the army itself when, the same day, he called on Nigeria's soldiers to "justify the trust of the nation...
Speth notes the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the growth rate (GDP) and decline in employment. "It takes enormous GDP growth to get jobs," he says. "It focuses us as a nation on a fool's errand...
...matter of how a nation measures performance is far from trivial, says Gus Speth, particularly at a time when environment sustainability is on many people's minds. He observes: "You tend to get what you measure, so we'd better measure what we want." In other words, to a certain extent we are what we count. (See pictures of the stock market crash...