Word: socialists
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Human Needs Not Corporate Greed/March for Our Lives! (Monday, August 14): Similar to the Unity2000 march in Philadelphia, this promises to be the largest demonstration of the convention's opening day. Includes participation by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), Rainforest Action Network, International Socialist Organization, Queers For Racial & Economic Justice, Radical Student League, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Alliance for Democracy...
...protective shell, the fledgling is only partly visible--a beak here, a claw there--but already it has begun to reveal a dynamic, high-tech nation in which the old state-controlled system will give way to a more decentralized, privatized and entrepreneurial society. Says former Socialist Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "We're becoming a country like any other...
...gross domestic product) and one of its most bloated public sectors (accounting for 1 of every 4 French jobs). The leadership is nothing new either; it consists of Gaullist President Jacques Chirac, 67, who has been battling in the political arena for more than three decades, and Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, 62, an austere Protestant who still lapses into old-fashioned leftist rhetoric and heads a coalition that includes one of Europe's last and least-reformed communist parties...
...turnaround actually began just before Jospin's election, but the Prime Minister deserves credit for his efforts to keep it going. After dithering over adopting the euro, the new Socialist government signed the June 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, which ensured France's participation in the single European currency and tied its destiny to the 15-member European Union. Jospin then began a steady sell-off of state companies, a move that reassured the business community and international investors. Most important, and most controversial, were the 35-hour workweek and a program that offered state-subsidized jobs to 350,000 young people...
...being elevated to his late father's job as ruler of Syria must be generating some envy in the two other prominent heirs waiting to succeed a parent as head of state--Prince Charles and George W. Bush. Of the three countries involved, Syria, which is supposedly a socialist republic, seems to be the only one that still observes the monarchical line of succession in unreconstructed form. Bashar Assad is in line for the top job simply because his elder brother was killed several years ago. The only other person claiming to be the true successor is Bashar's uncle...