Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crime of such particularity creates particular moral obligations. One (to borrow from philosopher Emil Fackenheim) above all: Hitler must be allowed no posthumous victories. Hitler's singular project -- the destruction of the Jewish people -- must not be permitted its final success...
...DOES ONE GET TO BE "THE EDUCATION PRESIdent"? Borrow your program from George Bush. Bill Clinton, of course, would not put it that way. But his first plan for educational reform is largely a request that Congress write into law six goals that Bush and the nation's Governors agreed to in 1990. The most important provisions: the government would set up a board to establish standards for schools, teachers and students to meet in both academic and vocational education and put up $393 million to encourage states to find ways to meet those standards...
...about." The remaining $1.2 billion in economic aid is harder to justify now that Israel is flush. Foreign investment is flowing in, the growth rate is a phenomenal 6%, and the $10 billion in loan guarantees finally granted by George Bush last year has permitted Israel to borrow from private banks at favorable rates. The country is doing so well that the government has asked the Israel Bonds Organization to curtail sales; the loan guarantees are a much better way to raise capital...
...such regular intervals. I pointed out that Israel sports the Ateret Hacohanim, a group of believers so convinced of the imminence of the Messiah who will rebuild the Temple of Solomon that they spend their days studying the ancient laws of animal sacrifice. That way they'll be -- to borrow a phrase from George Bush's -- ready...
...years in a variety of community jobs. Even with a price tag that steep, however, the program can fund at most 150,000 Americans a year by 1997, a fraction of the potential demand and a far cry from Clinton's campaign pledge that "every young American could borrow the money necessary to go to college" by "giving two years of his life to rebuild America...