Word: abjectness
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...failure to address domestic issues is becoming especially ominous given the latest harbingers of hard times ahead and the inattention to the country's most corrosive problems: a national debt of $3 trillion, 30 million citizens who live in abject poverty, the highest homicide rate in the industrialized world and disgracefully failing schools. Such problems, says Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, are the real measure of what fighting the cold war cost the U.S. "For half a century we put all our best energies and best minds into the issues of the cold war, just as now in the gulf...
Generally, though, the mood is not so much one of abject fear as a mixture of resignation and relief. Resignation to diminished expectations, for one thing. The children of the large baby-boom generation are reaching their expensive teenage years, and college costs loom. Something's got to give. Many consumers also feel a back-to-basics sense of relief now that '80s icons like the Santa Fe look, sun-dried tomatoes and goat-cheese pizza have seen their day. Such ordinary pleasures as gardening, milk shakes and fried chicken and mashed potatoes are acceptable once more. Exclusive name brands...
Koreans hoped for an abject apology for Japan's brutal occupation of their country from 1910 to 1945. What they got instead was the Emperor's lukewarm expression of "deepest regret...
...young black males. Looking for an approach to the problem, he considered the way that the Army, at its best, trains people -- teaches them discipline, teamwork and such values as courage, honor, strength, loyalty, pride. The experience, when all goes well, can transform lives. The welfare system institutionalizes an abject status quo and produces generations of angry, mired victims...
...proud Russian nationalist. He likes power, knows how to use it and wants to keep it. His political reforms, glasnost, are totally inadequate compared with a free society. But compared with what the Soviet people had before, the changes are breathtaking. His economic reforms, perestroika, have been an abject failure. For example, in the ten years of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, the per capita income of the Chinese people has doubled. In the five years of Gorbachev's rule, the per capita income of the Russian people has gone down. But while Gorbachev has only marginally changed the Soviet...