Word: unsocialist
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...more cheerful about Lula, the PT's radical wing (more than a quarter of the party) seems devastated by his move to the center. They've groused especially loudly about Meirelles and Finance Minister Antonio Palocci, a physician who, as a PT mayor in the '90s, engineered a very unsocialist privatization of local utilities. Both men have pledged to adhere to strict economic targets that the International Monetary Fund set last year in return for a $30 billion loan to Brazil. Senator Heloísa Helena, part of a PT group that wants Brazil to default on its $208 billion...
...friend and tolerated critic, the poet Maxim Gorky, make the most telling observation, in a 1919 letter to his wife: "Only the Commissars live a pleasant life these days. They steal as much as they can from the ordinary people in order to pay for their courtesans and their unsocialist luxuries...
...most explosive bombshell came last week, when it was revealed that the media magnate had secretly -- and improperly -- "borrowed" $767 million from worker pension funds at the two public concerns under his control. The money is missing and unaccounted for. This most unsocialist of acts prompted the Mirror's conservative archrival, Rupert Murdoch's Sun, to run banner headlines in Thursday's edition asking cheekily, MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE BIGGEST CROOK...
...vodka as the national beverage, it is widely available. Cooperative restaurants enjoy a fairly brisk business, at least among those who can afford the prices (lunches and dinners often go for $20 to $30 a person, without drinks or wine). Major hotels offer Western joint- venture seekers many distinctly unsocialist hard-currency attractions -- slot machines, for one -- while out on the sidewalks, better-dressed young people hurry by, oblivious to the stiff-knuckled old women sweeping the streets with birch-branch brooms...
...China has discovered the free market. Poland bends to the Roman Catholic Church. Even the Soviet Union is now in the grip of a wave of openness: vital statistics (like infantmortality rates) are being published again; a suppressed antiStalinist film is being released; plane crashes, submarine sinkings and other unsocialist occurrences are being reported...