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...charges came from George Koskotas, 34, imprisoned owner of the Bank of Crete and onetime crony of the ruling elite of the Socialist Party (PASOK). Koskotas, now a fugitive from Greece, is accused of looting his bank of more than $210 million. In jail in Massachusetts and facing extradition, Koskotas told TIME that much of the missing money was used to make regular payoffs to PASOK officials...
Then we have been constantly criticizing the competitiveness and the market process of your own system to the point of excluding the very word market from any discussion of our country. A market can be a capitalist or a socialist one, but it is still a market. So here we have wasted a lot of time, not to mention all that has been sacrificed and the people and the resources we have lost. Also, the system of leveled-down wages has led to a loss of interest in their work on the part of both workers and managers...
...Russian character to express itself. The Russian character is no weaker than the American character. We also have people with a flair for business, but, of course, in the matter of entrepreneurship, some of your executives have made quicker progress, thanks to entrepreneurship itself. We only started talking about socialist entrepreneurship in the past few years, thinking it a possible way out for ourselves. "Come on," we said, "move and think faster, and you'll get more profit for your enterprise...
...Female," "person" and "human being" also fail as substitutes. While they each have their time and place, their repeated use belies the precision that supposedly characterizes articulate speech. It is virtually impossible to say, for example, "This human being was wearing a paisley dress and shouting socialist slogans" without sounding a wee bit awkward...
...grim trade in living people's kidneys would not be necessary if more people would voluntarily offer their kidneys (and other organs) when they die. Another socialist philosopher, Richard Titmuss, wrote a famous book two decades ago called The Gift Relationship, extolling the virtues of donated blood over purchased blood and, by extension, the superiority of sharing over commerce. Whatever you may think of Titmuss's larger point, the appeal of the blood-donor system as a small testament to our shared humanity is undeniable. Perhaps we should do more to encourage organ donation at death for the same reason...