Word: almost
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...good many baseball fans -- and gamblers -- whether Rose can ever convincingly refute the allegations is almost irrelevant. Charlie Hustle has become a symbol not just of gambling but also of the social toleration of it. Many people declare belligerently that even if all the allegations are true, they cannot see that Rose did anything grievously wrong. Had he bet on the Reds to lose, he would deserve severe punishment. But the Dowd report asserts that so far as anyone can determine, Rose bet on his team only to win -- and, many people ask, What was so terrible about that...
...former bookie and member of Gamblers Anonymous in Los Angeles who gives his name only as Freddy S. says, "All these states have the lottery. All these housewives and welfare recipients are going to get hooked. Kids aren't going to get diapers and food. You can pick up almost any newspaper now and get the lines ((odds on sporting events)). You couldn't do that in my day; you had to pay for that service. All this information, it's just too accessible. It's just too easy...
After more than 40 years of Communism, Poland is an economic cripple. Inflation is running close to 100% a year, the zloty is not considered real money, and all important transactions are done in dollars. The wait for an apartment is 20 years, an almost inconceivable reality that dominates the personal planning of most Poles. The country's underlying problem is that it invested in all the wrong industries. The state has squandered foreign loans and subsidized shipyards, steel mills and coal mines. In an age when information and high technology are the driving force of economic growth, Poland...
...both countries, Bush will find the disjuncture between economic and political progress that has, in very different ways, plagued Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost-led revolution as well as Deng Xiaoping's marketplace-led revolt. Poland combines robust political competition with a downtrodden economy almost too far gone for reform. Hungary combines an explosion of private enterprise with a less vigorous attitude toward democracy. The message the U.S. and its West European allies can bring to both places is the truth that lies at the heart of democratic capitalism: economic and political freedoms work best in tandem...
...centralized economy, a one-party political system and a suppression of personal freedoms. People are electing their representatives for the first time. They are reading independent newspapers and starting their own businesses. They are even tearing down the fences that have kept the world in an armed standoff for almost two generations. With help from the rest of the world, these freedoms could be savored long after the problems they may cause are relegated to a historical footnote...