Besides the sport, sacrifice and sex, a profound spirit of democracy and egalitarianism suffused the games.
In Japan it is fair to say that egalitarianism is the opiate of the masses.
"Bad egalitarianism" is how Hisayoshi Katsumata, a professor of economics at Tokai University, describes such thinking.
Hence workers have to be the absolute best, so forcing a decline in egalitarianism.
It can be done in a way that coincides with liberal values of solidarity and egalitarianism.
The sickness is the phony egalitarianism that has poisoned publishing and other vast swaths of the economy.
"Japanese egalitarianism is bad because the focus is not on equal opportunity but on equal results, " he says.
Those who believe foremost in egalitarianism, for example, run in very different directions from stout defenders of laissez-faire.
General Musharraf is a hawk on India, and his egalitarianism could prove to be more rhetorical than real.
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Second, unless France embraces the idea of competition, the creed of egalitarianism will drag down quality for everybody.
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Mr Bo has also been promoting communist values of egalitarianism, thrift and honesty (his son's schooling: Harrow and Oxford).
Although the open-necked shirts of egalitarianism hogged magazine covers during the internet boom, plutocratisation was actually the dominant trend.
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And so a fog of wishful thinking, euphemisms, and well-intended egalitarianism hangs over the discussion of education, obscuring simple truths.
In addition, they contend, Israel has a unique entrepreneurial culture that combines individualism, egalitarianism (a penchant for organizational flatness) and nurturing.
The German Social Democratic Party traditionally a bastion of egalitarianism has produced a plan to create German equivalents of Harvard, Princeton and Stanford.
In the name of egalitarianism, the tournament features the club champions of FIFA's six confederations, plus a representative from the host nation.
The city's buildings and monuments, with their blocky shapes, clean lines, and apparent concrete, were supposed to have a futuristic appeal and portray egalitarianism.
Of particular significance is that the impetus to hold the referendum arose not out of envy or left-wing egalitarianism but rather simple concern for shareholder value.
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Over at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen I try to explain some of my (always evolving) political views, and muddle through the various tensions between nostalgia, egalitarianism, and liberty.
Uber-liberal egalitarianism and a Sharia utopia simply won't mix.
Moreover, proponents of this ban knowingly supported a position that would unequivocally exacerbate organ shortages, belying an actual desire to liberate individuals from kidney disease, because of a wicked commitment to egalitarianism.
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Volunteerism at any cost, coarse egalitarianism, active adventures abroad, and a country kept in a state of constant tension by the latest economic or political campaign appear to be gradually fading into things of the past.
These include exceptionalism, egalitarianism and pragmatism.
Erdogan's softly peddled but remorselessly consolidated Islamism was embraced by senior American officials intent on reducing democracy to a synonym for elections rather than acknowledging that democracy is only meaningful as a system of laws and practices that engender liberal egalitarianism.
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