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But, over the past fifty years, when many other countries, including France and Italy, implemented draconian controls, the result was always the same: eventually, the private sector adapted and eroded the controls’ effectiveness.
This susceptibility is the clearest sign that India's experiment with the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy has failed to justify the hopes that prevailed fifty years ago when the Constitution was proclaimed.
Today's Asian policymakers confront a very different environment from that faced by their predecessors fifty years ago.
Fifty years later, this is the lesson for us of the Schuman’s declaration.
In most countries, this is clearly very different from what elections looked like twenty, let alone fifty, years ago.
Hu’s tightening of controls over political discourse and the media intensified with the publication in September 2004 of a list of “Top Fifty Public Intellectuals” in Southern Weekly.
Fifty years of communist misrule have left what was once the most advanced city in Asia a distant also-ran.
Fifty years ago, people spoke often, and loudly, of a “generation gap.”
Fifty years ago, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (more widely known as the Kerner Commission), issued its report, providing a stark account of the conditions in America that had led to the disorders.
The just-published book based on our efforts, Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report, edited by Fred Harris and Alan Curtis, makes for bleak reading.
Their thoughts retrace the economic thinking of over fifty years ago, a time when economists concluded that the thing to do with deflation was to avoid it like the plague.
But if this is an issue solved over fifty years ago, why is it haunting us now?
General Musharraf is the third Pakistani general in fifty years to seize power proclaiming a self-anointed reform agenda.
Fifty years ago, few thought that possible.
Hostile reactions from his colleagues convinced Freud to suppress the paper, which was published only after his death fifty years later.
But the tone of some of the criticism – from “mystic woo-woo about the froo froo” to “bad news for everybody who has one” – suggests that even a culture in which millions of women are devouring a novel about sadomasochism, Fifty Shades of Grey, still has problems discussing women’s sexuality in a positive, empowering way.
The Berlin Wall’s ChildrenHONOLULU – Fifty years ago today, on August 13, under the cover of darkness, East Germany broke ground on the construction of the Berlin Wall, which became one of the most iconic symbols of violence and exclusion the world has ever known.
The Arab World’s Coming ChallengesLONDON – Fifty years after the Six Days War, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis.
True, Argentina endured fifty years of military dictatorships and weak civil governments.
A Dream for the Digital AgePRINCETON – Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King dreamed of an America that would one day deliver on its promise of equality for all of its citizens, black as well as white.
Fifty years later, these goals are no longer relevant.
Fifty years later, socialism's advantages, Marxism's truth, and the proletarian character of the Party have all been unanswerably challenged.
A fine-tuned, if precarious, balance of liberal and democratic factors allowed for the last fifty years of unprecedented well-being in the West.
The Kennedy TemptationNEW YORK – Fifty years ago this month, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Fifty years ago, US President John F. Kennedy declared that, “By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly towards it.”
It is hard, at least for me, to envision alternative political arrangements or economic policies over the past fifty years that would have transferred any significant portion of the wealth of today’s rich nations to today’s poor nations.
Fifty years ago, the rest of the world might have carried on with remedying the problem of conventional and greenhouse gas emissions and let China and the US stew in their own waste.
Japan has relied entirely on the US for its security needs for over fifty years and the Japanese government essentially believes that it has no option but to agree with the US or to keep silent.
During those fifty years, however, the map of world conflict has been rewritten and the means of warfare transformed, while Japan remains locked in viewpoints forged in the trauma of wartime defeat and US occupation.
Fifty million – equivalent to the entire population of the United Kingdom – cope on less than $1.
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