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...ever be easy to hurry by the homeless when it's cold and dark, to avert your eyes when your own wallet is feeling the pinch of attending a high-priced university? How can we walk by, perhaps feeling guilty, but able to forget the incident a few short hours later...
...avert that catastrophe, the U.S. should use its influence with China and Thailand not just to cut off arms to the Khmer Rouge but also to shut down their base camps on the Thai side of the Kampuchean border, ferret out and seize their arms caches, round up their most villainous leaders and arrange for their peaceful retirement to, say, rural North Korea...
...leader. The fiscal shortfall is seen as the country's main economic problem by 43%, vs. 22% who name unemployment, 16% the trade deficit and 11% inflation. Seven out of ten support Bush's opposition to new taxes, but the same large majority predicts that he will fail to avert them...
Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle took a bus tour through Pennsylvania, trying to avert complacency that could keep his ticket's supporters from going to the polls...
Maybe the next President can muddle through four years without either a crisis or a dramatic effort to avert one. But Reagan was right in 1981: a society, like an individual family, cannot live beyond its means indefinitely. In fact, if it wants to prosper and grow, it cannot even live at its means. It must save and invest for the future. We have not been doing that, and unless this changes we will suffer for it, even if the suffering takes the form of slow stagnation rather than some bloodcurdling cataclysm...