Word: socialists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...faith in one-issue, corporatist movements like farmers and doctors. Under the Fifth Republic introduced by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, the President is meant to be both the guardian of the nation and its executive leader. But the current contest between the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac and the Socialist Lionel Jospin only emphasizes the gulf between the real challenges facing France and the public skepticism that any politician can solve them. The economic expansion that enabled the country to stand tall at the start of the century has slowed. Unemployment is rising. So is fear of crime. In Europe...
...pedantic Jospin, 64, is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist apparatchik who is particularly proud of having restricted the hours the French can work to 35 a week. He was already first secretary of the Socialist Party when it first held power way back in 1981. He says that, while he is a socialist, his program will not be socialist - which is only pragmatic of him, since the outcome will be decided by centrist voters. But a vote for Jospin is still a vote for a state that takes more than half the national income in tax and welfare payments...
Before Horowitz spoke, a handful of members of the socialist Spartacus Youth Club protested his speech in front of the Science Center...
...bills drop by 23%. In France, the situation is complicated by the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. Neither of the leading presidential contenders - incumbent Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin - want to be seen caving in to Brussels so close to the vote. This is puzzling, since the Socialist Jospin government has privatized more government businesses than all of his conservative predecessors combined...
...Strains of the socialist “Internationale” well up from an erstwhile-unnoticed orchestra...