Word: socialist
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...what I’ve said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
...know that women's rights are never secured, but we never thought we'd see such regression in our country," reacted Martine Aubry, the Socialist mayor of Lille, where the case was heard. France's conservative secretary of state for social solidarity, Valérie Létard, called the decision "an attack on the integrity of women and a violation of the fundamental rights of all individuals...
...cooperate on negotiating overtime rules, unions have called for large protest strikes on June 17. But labor leaders aren't the only ones feeling hoodwinked on the issue. "The right is in the process of creating social policies of revenge against all the employees of this country," said Socialist legislator Henri Emmanuelli. Nor was dismayed reaction to Bertrand's text limited to the left of the political spectrum. Laurence Parisot, president of the Medef employer's organization which is signatory to the agreements with unions, also disagreed with Bertrand's intended power play. "It was hardly a month ago that...
...fulfil its potential - an efficient legal system, regulatory transparency and free elections. "That is what creates sustainability," said al-Barrak. "That anchors the future." He also criticized the Gulf's bloated public sector, joking that Kuwait has so many government employees that it's "one of the three remaining socialist states in the world, along with Cuba and North Korea...
...must pick a competent panel to decide who among the local applicants is eligible for naturalizations, with the final decision left to the voters, the SVP says. While this system may be more difficult to implement in large cities, in small towns and villages, says Francis Matthey, a former socialist parliamentarian and currently President of the Federal Commission on Migration, "it would play right into the SVP's hands, because of the party's strong agrarian base." Under the current system a rejected candidate for citizenship has the right to appeal; the SVP wants any such decision to be irrevocable...