Word: basics
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...conceivable that Mexico could be a threat to the U.S. -- a Mexico in chaos, a Mexico where the basic institutions that have governed the country in the past 60 years begin to unravel, where you have a situation like the one you had in Venezuela last February ((riots broke out in response to austerity measures)). I don't think this is likely. But it's not something you can discard entirely. There is a limit to how much people can take. That limit is being approached now, too quickly. I know for a fact, and I think every Mexican knows...
...difference in perception stems from one very basic fact: Mexico does not have a drug-addiction problem. Some drugs have been consumed in Mexico for many years -- marijuana has been smoked in Mexican army barracks for well over a century now -- but there is no major drug problem here in terms of Mexican youth, in terms of addiction and consumption. There is a drug-production problem and a drug-trafficking problem, but addiction is not affecting broad sectors of Mexican society, as of today. So inevitably that leads everyone in Mexico to view the problem of drugs as less important...
...contrast, says spokesperson Howard P. Ramseur, the Rainbow's goal is a little more basic: to bring new people into the political process...
...many, the last straw was the buyout clause, which forces the council to pay Healy the balance of his salary even if he is removed from his post. Such a contract, they say, deprives the city of it's most basic power--the right to fire the city manager...
Until much more testing is completed, the debate cannot answer a very basic question: Is the B-2 capable of attacking targets in the Soviet Union without being detected? The initial flight proved only that the boomerang-shaped delta wing can fly. It remains to be seen whether the sleek aerodynamic design, composite-plastics fabrication and other tricks intended to evade radar will actually work...