Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lone statue at the far end of the huge hall was blocked from sight by the press stand. "Your people and your leaders -- government and opposition alike -- are not afraid to break with the past, to act in the spirit of truth," Bush told the students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped Das Kapital from its required reading list." All over the hall George Bush, a proud product of U.S capitalism, saw the young Hungarians break into wide smiles and nod in agreement...
Greetings from New Orleans. Things down here could be better...
Surely you are not surprised that I would look to you for leadership. After all, as the nation's most-quoted expert on constitutional law, who would better understand why protecting flag-burning is so essential to basic civil liberties? And as a heralded liberal (whom many say will have his own seat on the Court someday), who could better weather the political storm and take the unpopular but moral stand...
...Cambridge is in a little bit better shape this year than almost all other cities and towns in Massachusetts because it is currently taxing below its levy limit [as regulated by Proposition 2 1/2]," Maloney said. "It's our hope not to tax more, but that cannot be decided...
...cost of the universal health care plan is really unknown," Woodward said. "I hope we could step back [and] put it off for a couple of years and make a better, more informed decision...