Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many African nations are poor in part because visionaries prescribed policies that not even superpowers, such as the Soviet Union, could afford. Food aid has brought food shortages, many now argue, by allowing Africa's governments to maintain in place policies that discriminate against local farmers. Structural adjustment has stabilized Africa's macro-economies but brought little economic growth. Africa's people have paid the costs of "free" public services, foreign "aid" and "free" markets...
...supply of money, withholding subsidies from inefficient enterprises and continuing the transfer of government-owned property to private hands are essential for Russia's economic well-being. If the Russian government abandons these policies, the result will not be the Western-style prosperity of which Russians dream or the Soviet-style security that their memories have exaggerated. It will, instead, be rampant inflation and perhaps economic collapse...
...legitimate interest as well as some influence: foreign policy. It is essential to insist on Russian compliance with treaties limiting nuclear and non-nuclear armaments and also vital to insist on Russian respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors that were once republics of the Soviet Union and are now independent countries--especially the Baltic states and Ukraine...
Considering their youth and inexperience, experts did not even pick the United States to qualify for the final round of eight. Spearheaded by Cleary, the gritty American team by Cleary, the gritty American team beat all odds when it defeated the Soviet Union in the semi-finals and then came from behind in the third period to win over Czechoslovakia and capture the gold medal...
...BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND how CIA counterintelligence whiz James Jesus Angleton felt during his obsessive Ahab-like hunt in the 1960s for a Soviet mole who had buried himself in the agency. All life becomes reduced to a hall of mirrors, as someone you almost certainly know has constructed a dual identity of shocking duplicity...