Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dardis cannot say what keeps people from writing well because he cannot say what makes them write well in the first place. Sobriety has never guaranteed great art. Dardis oversimplifies the writing process by implying that clear thinking and dedication alone produce great books, and he deals with the writers' "talent" as though it were a discreet quality that could conserved or expended...
...also never explores what makes his subjects write. He asserts that they drink because they are slaves to their genes, but he never really explains what inclines them to enter into a alcoholic cycle which they cannot escape...
...largest user, relies heavily on the canal for food imports. A shipment of grain from the U.S., for instance, would take about 20 days longer if it had to be rerouted. Even so, traffic may peter out as trade vessels get larger; already a sizable portion of cargo ships cannot fit through the canal...
Beyond that, patience may be the soundest tactic. Noriega's intransigence is not the only problem. The Panamanian people, though exercised last week by Noriega's outright contempt for popular opinion, cannot be counted on to remain in the streets. They have mounted sizable protests twice before over the past two years, only to retreat back into their comfortable homes. "What we need here is 20 good Korean students," a U.S. official wryly notes. "The people ((in Panama)) seldom put it on the line." Frustrated as they may be, middle-class Panamanians have not suffered the misery that galvanized Filipinos...
...more than simply containing Soviet expansionism -- we seek the integration of the Soviet Union into the community of nations." But, confirming what his lieutenants had been saying privately, Bush put the onus on the Soviet Union to make further moves to bring that happy state about. "A new relationship cannot be simply declared by Moscow or bestowed by others," he said. "It must be earned...