Word: socialistic
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Sadly, Cuban cigars fell victim over the years to socialist mismanagement. The island's wrapping handicraft declined, and its tobacco fields produced inferior leaf because they were no longer properly fertilized or allowed sufficient time to lay fallow. So uneven is the yield that two years ago, Switzerland's Davidoff company, which profited handsomely for decades from Fidel Castro's crop, pulled up its Cuban stakes...
...genocidal campaign against them by Croat fascists during World War II. Now Bosnia, largely Muslim and Croat but with a 1.4 million Serb ethnic component, has seceded, and Serbia sees the pattern repeating. Once again Serbs feel themselves victimized by an uncaring world. Mihailo Markovic, vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, asks, "How can the world accept the reunification of Germany and want to disintegrate the unity of Serbs...
...into its longest, deepest recession since World War II. Rather, the Tories can only conclude that they remain more trusted than Labour to curb 9.4% unemployment, high interest rates and the spate of business bankruptcies and closures. Ultimately, Labour's attempts to convince voters that it had shed its socialist spots failed. The party's renunciation of its old high-taxing, free-spending habits were offset by promises to shore up education, health care and other domestic programs, which Britain's largest accounting firm calculated would add $47 billion to the national budget...
Only 10 months after President Francois Mitterrand made her the first woman to hold France's second highest office, she was forced to withdraw. Her resignation follows the ruling Socialist Party's humiliating trouncing two weeks ago in regional elections...
...powerful Economics and Finance Minister, who was named to succeed her, is expected to restore some confidence in the party before parliamentary elections in March 1993. The son of a Ukrainian immigrant and a member of the Resistance during World War II, he is one of the few Socialist leaders from a working-class background...