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...believer in free trade among all nations. This does not make him an enthusiast for the Common Market. He fears it may become "an island of protectionism in Europe" because of pressure from the weaker economic members, especially France. "Why should I want to throw out controls and to abolish tariffs on a national level only to reintroduce them on an international one and on a much larger scale?" he demands...
...acted quickly and decisively (see below). Now, at week's end Faubus -like Joe McCarthy before him-was trying to regain the initiative by even more drastic talk, slandering his political opponents, and musing about the possibility of calling a special session of the Arkansas legislature to abolish the public school system. And the President of the U.S. would return to Washington this week to confer with a delegation of five Southern governors...
...University seemed to have no such explicit assurance. Nobody was willing to say that requirements worked for the benefit of those subjected to them, and yet nobody was willing to abolish them. Everybody agreed in theory that all students had unique needs and that no system could possibly do these individuals justice. And yet with monotonous regularity the abolition of one unsatisfactory system was succeeded by the installation of another, which in turn was abolished when it too failed to achieve the undefined end, "the liberal education...
...drim wil kum tru. Ma I mak a sugesion? Abolish ce artikls. As a foriner, ce hardest cing in English to lern is ce usage...
...Abolish the moss-backed longevity system under which a sway-backed corporal with 24 years of service can collect more on payday than an ambitious, youthful master sergeant...