Word: americansã
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...AmeriCorps program and encouraging military service abroad. However, while they mentioned the Peace Corps vision of President John F. Kennedy ’40, a former Crimson editor, as an example of the types of public service initiatives that have come before, they had noticeably little to say about Americans??€™ service abroad beyond encouraging larger compensation packages for servicemen...
...have helped them throw off the bonds of terror, we must be committed to helping them improve their quality of life. Otherwise our assistance will seem merely self-serving, hollow words from a hollow, self-interested nation. One of the best ways to prevent this conclusion is by increasing Americans??€™ direct service and volunteer presence abroad. As McCain and Bayh wrote, some of the best people to provide such service are young people. It is a great thing that Bayh and McCain have advocated the expansion of AmeriCorps, for which House Republicans tried to eliminate funding last summer...
However, there is no reason to want Americans??€™ safety to be ‘flexible.’ Airport security personnel who were federal employees would undergo a universal screening process and would be expected to work as highly trained professionals. Having higher-paid federal workers instead of outsourced personnel will attract more qualified individuals to guard our airports, and we would rather pay the extra cost than have the safety of all Americans protected by the lowest bidder...
While the quick action on the bill was both necessary and effective, some of the new regulations appear to have been inspired more by fear than by merit. Tapping Internet accounts without authorization threatens Americans??€™ civil liberties and is unlikely to significantly ease investigations. Detaining immigrants without charges condones discrimination by law enforcement...
...their work for the peace agreement. Since he founded the SDLP in 1969, Hume has been consistently opposed to violence while supporting the nationalist ideals. By following his example of considering this a political struggle and not a war, the people of Northern Ireland can learn to live like Americans??€”at peace with fellow citizens of all religions and political beliefs...