Word: socialists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...want you to paper over the cracks.' They were saying, 'There's not much difference between the two of you, so stop behaving as if there is.'" Bob Worcester, chairman of the polling organization MORI, says this perception is not shared by the public, who see Brown as "a socialist wolf in sheep's clothing." But this is not necessarily an electoral disadvantage: Labour's current 5% lead over the Tories under Blair would increase to 13% if Brown were at the helm, according to a survey by pollsters NOP. And a whiff of good, old-fashioned socialism does nothing...
...Many residents have close ties to Spain, and most don't speak Basque. A majority of 59%, however, thinks the government should allow a referendum to go ahead. Before it comes to that, the Basque government faces regional elections in the spring. José Blanco, Secretary of Zapatero's Socialist Party, hopes local party candidates can do well enough against Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party to head off a collision with Madrid. And the Socialists say they can fine-tune relations with the Basque Country without resorting to a constitutional amendment. "We are firm, but that has nothing...
...nest eggs. As Bush planned his first presidential campaign, he brought in experts to brief him on how privatization had worked in places like Chile, and even Sweden--surely one of the rare instances of a Republican taking the lead from a country known for a near socialist welfare system...
...Final Splintering The turmoil over Ukraine's November presidential elections once again put that country in the spotlight [Dec. 6]. It was only 13 years ago that the former founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics declared itself a separate nation, helping guarantee the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union...
...looks out on Tripoli, it is hard to grasp the potential. The city's crumbling old Italian colonial buildings are set amid billboards hailing Libya's socialist revolution. But Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia - Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms - Western executives crowd the lobby. American executives will need to catch up with European oil businesses, which remained in Libya through decades of U.S. sanctions. Italy's Eni, Spain's Repsol-YPF and France's Total have run Libyan subsidiaries with no American competition. Virtually all of Libya...