Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year skyrocketed to 36,000%. The national currency, the cordoba, is virtually useless; some merchants just price their goods in dollars. Public transportation barely exists. In Managua or along country roads, knots of people wait for buses that may come in an hour, a day, or, if the driver cannot find gasoline...
Victims of illness or accident who cannot afford treatment outside Nicaragua must rely on scandalously inadequate health care. The leading cause of death among children is diarrhea. Dysentery, malaria, tuberculosis and hepatitis plague communities. Dengue fever, wiped out in Somoza's day, is again a common menace. Malnutrition is a growing killer...
...cannot remain a leading force in technology, industry and science unless it is in the forefront of space exploration. Throughout its history, America has been a nation of discoverers and achievers. If it fails to take the next major step in space, it will have given up an essential part of its national character...
...guts but also a nagging heart and the seductive scowl of obsession. Often he failed; sometimes he died. He was real: us, with muscles. A heroid, though, is just the muscles. He owes more to comic strips than to romantic or detective fiction. Never really alive, a heroid cannot die; he must be available for the next assembly-line sequel. He is the cyborg chauffeur of mechanical movies...
...completely un-American free lunch. When the money is gone, nothing has changed. Welfare does not require its recipients to go to school or acquire job training. Nor does it provide incentives for limiting the size of aid-dependant families. Welfare's structure, in fact, encourages people who cannot feed their current family to add more aiddependant children to the public dole...