Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe it is better to make clear positions beforehand in order to prevent any misunderstanding. You have to bear in mind that we don't talk directly to the Syrians or to the Lebanese. We have to make clear that we cannot tolerate any change that threatens the basic security interests of the state of Israel, either through Syrian movement to the south or the return of the terrorists. [But] we don't mean to threaten anyone. We are not asking for the change of one millimeter of the line between Israel and Lebanon...
Perry also said students today fear that each poor hourly grade or minor setback will bear directly on their chances of fulfilling their career goals...
...thin, cerebral chemical engineering student at the University of Maine, left school five years ago when he decided to teach himself how to build houses. He has learned well and has also bought farmland and taught himself how to farm. Now he looks as strong and healthy as a bear. My cousin is the best argument I've yet seen for Wing and Cole's assertion that people should teach themselves how to build, and for the larger assertion that people should learn to rely more on their own skills...
...libertarian prescription for an ideal world is never precisely set forth in Ergo, although it is implied backhandedly through a criticism of government intervention in the economy or political "freedoms," government grants to study man-polar bear relations, for example. Wright outlines a world where no one coerces anyone. A police force would be funded voluntarily, because those who did not contribute would not receive protection. Wright admits to a small chink in libertarian logical armor when he concedes that someone who refused to pay for a national defense system would benefit from it anyway; but he points out that...
...having said that, I'd like to emphasize one thing, and that is that the universities themselves bear a responsibility for many of the problems of federal regulation that they've encountered. You can't expect the quality of federal regulation to be any better than the quality of advice that is given by those who are subject to it, and universities have not, until recent years, paid much attention to try to give not last-minute efforts to ward off regulation, but much earlier, more constructive efforts using their intellectual resources to help the government address important national issues...