Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a two-counter shop near my apartment. One bin holds small yellowish apples that have played host to a worm or two. Ten minutes later I find better apples at a private stand. I wait in line three minutes and buy a dozen...
...Usually the market is crowded, but today business is as limp as the rotting persimmons on display. I buy carrots at $1.64 per lb., three times the price of their frail cousins at the state store but six times better looking...
...relationship has frequently been marred by the hosts' cultural prejudice. The latest round of confrontation also has a more mundane source: envy. Most of the 1,400 African students currently in the country get free tuition and room and board plus a stipend from the Chinese government. They live better and eat better than their Chinese counterparts. Says a U.S. official who is a frequent visitor to China: "There is tremendous discontent ((about foreign privilege)) among students and intellectuals...
Legal experts are divided on whether the narrower case against North will have better odds for conviction. North's threat to use graymail against the remaining charges could backfire, according to some lawyers. "Right now Oliver North is not viewed as a graymailer; he is viewed as a patriot," says former Watergate assistant prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste. That outlook could change, Ben-Veniste suggests, as the focus of the case shifts from the unauthorized conduct of foreign policy to the seedier allegations of shredding documents, lying to Congress and diverting money for North...
...undertake such missions of mercy -- and others far more perilous -- is not something easily explained or understood. "I know it is not possible to save everybody in the world," says Dr. Jean-Louis Menciere, a French anesthesiologist working in Sri Lanka, "but to do something about it is better than doing nothing." As more and more people become committed to the idea that, as Bernard Kouchner puts it, "mankind's suffering belongs to all men," the day may not be far off when there will be a substantial pool of medical personnel at the ready, prepared to alleviate pain...