Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dream has many parts: a comfortable house in a tree-shaded neighborhood, a car, and college educations for the children. But at bottom it is based on two simple articles of national faith: 1) that each generation will live a bit better than that of its parents and build a still better life for its children; 2) that the nation will slowly but steadily progress toward greater equality. These twin pillars of belief have helped create the political and social stability -- and the economic dynamism -- that have characterized the U.S. for more than a century...
Cantabrigians have already sent advisors to help build a medical center and train health workers in the sister city...
...from subsidies to the middle class, not genuine Government investment or programs that aid the poor. Obvious targets are farm programs, Social Security and our disproportionate share of the defense of Europe and Japan, which is a subsidy to middle-class foreigners. But merely to list these is to build a monument to hopelessness. That's why, for all the candidates' bluster, salvation will probably come, if at all, on the revenue side...
...create inflation; or, the burning of Brazilian rain forests will deprive the world of oxygen, and we'll all choke to death; etc. But the sky hasn't fallen. And trying to persuade people it's going to fall any minute is probably not the best way to build a consensus on the next step...
...beat teammate Jager for a world mark in the 50. With the 4 X 100 medley relay, which was to be the last race of his career, still to come, he had a bronze, a silver and four golds. When he returns to California, he wants to build a camper on a used pickup truck he owns and travel around the U.S. "I've seen pools all over the world," he said, "but not much else...