Word: socialist
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...games begin outside the handsome Guangdong Museum of Art at 38 Yanyu Lu, Ersha Island, where large, red letters that read IN GOD WE TRUST are poised above sculptor Wang Guangyi's bulky, socialist-realist statues of heroic workers that emerge out of the ground like ghosts from the Cultural Revolution. Sincerity jousts with irony, old communist values with new China's avarice. Greed, of course, has the upper hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living...
...just their production facilities but their entire companies. Hans Brach, who owns an air-conditioning company that employs 50 workers, says he is seriously considering moving his headquarters to Switzerland or the Czech Republic. "If conditions [in Germany] continue, we will end up in a state administered by socialist principles and the free market will be controlled by the state," says Brach, who has fought against a German law that requires him to set up a factory council that includes workers' representatives. "I don't want to have anyone interfering in my company," he says. Brach's path...
...designed to rebuild a smashed infrastructure, provide jobs and spur internal demand. For the domestic industries, Japan pursued consistently protectionist, anti-competitive policies, with the intention of keeping as many companies afloat as possible. "Ten percent of the country was allowed to be capitalist, and the other 90% was socialist," says Eisuke Sakakibara, director of the Global Security Research Center at Keio University and a former vice minister of finance. He's not really joking. Antitrust laws were virtually nonexistent, cartels flourished and high tariffs pushed away foreign entrants...
...requirements. You don't do what you are supposed to." These tough words - from NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, no less - greeted Hungarian Defense Minister Ferenc Juhász during his second week in the job. On a visit to the alliance's Brussels headquarters fresh from his Hungarian Socialist Party's general election victory last April, Juhász was shocked: "I was expecting more cooperative language. All the other countries were unfriendly. They questioned our seriousness in the fight against terrorism. They questioned our trustworthiness as an ally." What went wrong? When Hungary was admitted to NATO...
Offering copies of the Socialist paper Workers’ Vanguard to passersby, the pair disparages the candidates on the ballot...