Word: ambition
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Gorton points out that health and education fall outside the ambit of his subcommittee. Yet lapses in policing, child welfare and sanitation will have an indirect impact on health. And many tribes spend the discretionary funds he is imperiling on health and schooling. "Tribes are in desperate need of resources for educating children, for protecting abused and neglected children, for combating alcoholism and drug abuse, for fighting crime, for building roads and water and sewer systems," said Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, as he argued to reinstate Indian funding earlier this month. "And we, the Federal Government, have...
...that name. Despite her demanding and abrasive personality, Irene assumes a semi-divine status, the image of the perfection to those surrounding her: on the other hand, leads a temporary and contingent existence. She will retain her somewhat exalted only so long as she remains within the ambit of Irene. Likewise, her love affairs, if they could be so called, are brief, occuring between the end-points of a voyage; one takes place in the corridor of a train, and the other in the hold of a boat...