Word: socialists
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...Hong Kong at present suffers from both a structural shift in the world's economic geography and a plague, the virulence and duration of which is poorly understood. Following the breakdown of socialist and communist ideology in China and the Soviet Union, and the end of policies of self-reliance and isolation on the Indian subcontinent, the developed world's economic sphere has been enlarged by the same factor as during the great era of European exploration.More than 3 billion people have recently joined the global market economy. This means Hong Kong has new competitors, as do Japan, South Korea...
After debate started in the early 1990s over whether a shorter work week would bring about a reduction in unemployment rates, members of France’s Socialist party repeatedly tried to pass legislation creating the 35-hour work week...
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and his Socialist party, the largest advocates of the shortened work week, were trounced in the latest elections...
...Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac until then-President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, personally summoned him to ask for "more balanced" treatment. Le Floch-Prigent and Sirven haven't named names, and Chirac himself has not been implicated in the case, but the sums are substantial. Le Floch-Prigent estimated Elf handed out about $5 million per year to the political parties...
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Taubman's exploration of Khrushchev's complicity in Stalinist horror is probing, subtle. "Like many others," Taubman writes, "Khrushchev thought he was building a new socialist society, a glorious end that justified even the harshest means." So he "practiced deception and self-deception. He never fully owned up to his complicity." Touching a chillingly familiar chord, Taubman explains, "His complicity in great crimes ... was tied to nothing less than his own sense of self-worth, to his growing feeling of dignity, to the invigorating, intoxicating conviction that Stalin, a man he came almost to worship...