potemkin village
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Another great word!
When will the West have the guts to call Russia what it really is: a semi-totalitarian state with Potemkin village-style democratic institutions and a fascist-capitalist economy? — "Western Investors Defend a Potemkin Village", …
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Potemkin Village Ventures
The psychological principle behind investor behavior suggests to me that public policy makers interested in encouraging high growth entrepreneurship in their region should set up “Potemkin Village Ventures”. …
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Business Ideas May 19
Potemkin Village Ventures. Last week, at a meeting of an organization that provides pre-seed financing to start-ups with high growth potential, I was talking to several entrepreneurs about their efforts to obtain their "A" round of …
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Urban village here beats Potemkin village on the highway14 May 2008
The nonprofit Roslindale Village Main Street became one of the first five urban retail centers in the US to join the program in 1985. Boston now has 19 such programs throughout its neighborhoods, including West Roxbury.
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For Crick-goers
So all you Crick-goers who are trundling off to find the boat of your dreams, be careful you don't happen upon a boatbuilder whose exhibit is a mere 'Potemkin village'. There, isn't it wonderful? I'd never heard of it until I happened …
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Excerpt from The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of …
… unhealthy, and spiritually degrading—the jive plastic commuter tract home wastelands, the Potemkin Village shopping plazas with their vast parking lagoons, the Lego-block hotel complexes, the “Gourmet Mansardic” junk-food joints, …
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Here's what the MGU war memorial looked like on Sunday, just nine …
Here's what the MGU war memorial looked like on Sunday, just nine days after Victory Day: And here are some swastikas down by the river: Welcome to Potemkin Village.
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How Piketon Ohio Became a Potemkin Village/by Geoffrey Sea
When the Russian czarina toured war-ravaged Crimea in 1797, she viewed hundreds of hollow buildings and false fronts, momentarily populated by jovial village actors. Her minister, Grigori Potemkin, had engineered the grand theatrical …
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CBS News Potemkin Village8 Apr 2008
Flocks of sheep were driven by night to the next "village" on the tour to produce the illusion that Crimea was a prosperous and civilized land, rather than the barren waste it actually was. Whether disinformation or truth, the Potemkin …
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A Potemkin Village of Ice
A Potemkin Village of ice coverage. “Long-lasting ice,” the ice that might stay around a decade or longer, has dropped dramatically. “T the percentage of the Arctic Ocean with this stable ice cover has decreased from more than 50 …
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