Word: riche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unemployment, of course, isn't the only discordant element in modern China's claims to Mao's communist legacy. In 1979, then-leader Deng Xiaoping coined the rather novel (for a communist) slogan "To get rich is glorious." And today's China is anything but classless; in fact, its income inequalities are more pronounced than those of some of its avowedly capitalist Asian neighbors. Marx, Lenin and Mao would spin in their graves at what passes for communism in China at the end of the 20th century...
...would emphasize mastery of a nationally-established curriculum instead of "learning tricks to outwit multiple-choice aptitude exams." If he feels that this system would be less likely to discriminate against students in poorly run schools and less likely to be twisted by test preparation courses available to the rich, he is truly naive. The SATs are certainly not uncoachable, as ETS once claimed, but they are less dependent upon coaching than tests about subjects in history and chemistry...
...course, claiming a family feud - instead of admitting that he and his dad were simply prime political targets for the disgruntled - is not the best way for a rich kid to combat a sense of entitlement. Still, Bush's electoral analysis is right on - that's why he also took a moment to flog Donald Trump for the Reform nod, and bash Buchanan's "revisionist history about WWII" for good measure. What, no words for Warren Beatty? The actor pulled a pretty good Hillary in Hollywood on Wednesday night, talking loud - "Is there no protest anymore?" - but staying mum about...
...live in a city which is rich with college and university life," he says. "We need to make sure parents know we're taking full advantage of that...
Both Weicker and Trump suffer from similar problems, the former with no apparent base of support and the latter alienating everyone except the extremely rich. It's no wonder this hodge-podge party of political outcasts and mavericks is suffering from a serious identity crisis...