Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps we are getting the first glimpses of the end of the Age of Warfare, a time when it has it has become both avoidable and unprofitable. Conservatives will scoff and claim that war is forever and we must be ever vigilant. Liberals will applaud the new era, believing the Elysium will come with the cessation of national violence...
...focus has shifted. In a world growing ever more complex and interdependent, it has become the control of information, expertise, and technology, rather than military power, that is the index of true power. As the Industrial Revolution ended the ancient, "eternal," institution of slavery, so too the information age may be the start of a world beyond war. Yet as industry found new ways to control labor, nations and individuals will continue to compete, but in the economic and technological spheres...
...sweeping plan calls for preschool classes and nutrition plans for children starting at age three, after-school instruction for children of working parents every day of the working year, teaching "mentors" for students from single-parent homes from preschool to high school graduation, and adult education classes...
...morals," or on some concept of perfection, they would have sealed their own destruction by implying that an imperfect Israel has no right to exist. Fortunately, they acted somewhat more carefully than Sharfstein. Israel's "Declaration of Independence" explicitly states that the creation of the new state would destroy age-old double standards by "lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations." As Normon Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine writes, "the purpose of Israel was to normalize the Jewish people, not to perfect them. The Jewish state was to create not a utopia but a refuge...
...Moran is charged with forcible rape of a child under the age of 16 and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 on various dates. Samoluk said part of the charge involved the use of a sharp instrument and threats made to the children that their parents would be killed if they spoke of the abuse...