Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough of an achievement that she gets to star in them. Bassett, who turns 40 next Sunday, was raised in Florida by her mother, a social worker, and a supporting cast of relatives. Her mother was from the old school. "If you wanted a life, you had to keep those studies up," Bassett says. "If you dropped to C's, no cheerleading, no community theater! I got the message." On the advice of a director in a summer-activities program, she was spurred to dream big and apply to the top schools. Presto, she was at Yale. "And who knew...
...couldn't be any happier," says Knight, a former snow shoveler from Vermont who has cash to spare from his monthly $200 Social Security check. Yeah, summer is miserable. "But I got 18 coats of paint on [the shrine] now, and you should see it shine when it really heats up. It's beautiful...
...consider this--if you think about the number of times you've had the "there's no social life here" conversation with different people and compare it with the number of people you know, the odds are that there is a substantial number of people who feel similar, and of that number, one has to think you're cool...
...Prophets of doom warn that the economic damage will bring social unrest, as failed harvests bring food shortages and flood damage increases joblessness. The flooding certainly adds a cruel twist to Beijing's Herculean challenge of shifting to a market economy, rapidly and profoundly altering the way millions of people live and work. But there may be some consolation: The epic struggle against the flooding has drawn tens of millions of ordinary people away from their jobs and day-to-day concerns. Soldiers, farmers and city dwellers have thrown themselves into the battle to shore up dikes, save lives...
Throughout the communist era, the people of China have been told to think of themselves not as individuals, but as part of a greater collective whole. That's why the transition to a market economy is so challenging -- it tears down the collectivist social structure and forces more than a billion people to start looking out for Number One, with no safety net to fall back on. Not surprisingly, that prospect has created deep anxiety and uncertainty among many Chinese. But the dramatic flooding of the mighty Yangtze River in recent weeks has allowed Beijing to reassure citizens that...