Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are specific things we are talkingabout. I know it's frustrating," Wilson saidearlier this month to alumnae at the Boston tourstop in Agassiz Theater. "I cannot share that withyou without jeopardizing the process...
...watched as its sales of latex gloves were hammered by this new competition. The company used to ship 2 million gloves a month to South American customers. Now, says president Jorge de Cespedes, "the Asians are dumping their products on our customers at such a low price that we cannot compete. We're shipping a container of a million latex gloves about every other month." The company has shuttered two offices in Latin America and has temporarily shelved plans for expansion. De Cespedes says he sees signs of a slowdown domestically and in exports. "You sense it from something...
...would be a pretty thing to think that a gentle, genial spirit like Guido's could effectively resist totalitarianism at its most terrible. But it cannot--unless, of course, you rewrite the past and in the process travesty tragedy. The witnesses to the Holocaust--its living victims--inevitably grow fewer every year. The voices that would deny it ever took place remain strident. The newer generations hurry heedlessly into the future. In this climate, turning even a small corner of this century's central horror into feel-good popular entertainment is abhorrent. Sentimentality is a kind of fascism too, robbing...
...Primakov cannot wave Russia's current disaster away. Wages have to be paid on time, even if the government still cannot afford payment of back salaries for a while. The nation's idled factories have to start production again--even if they are not producing anything of great quality. Moscow theorists say the Russian public gives its leaders a three-month honeymoon. Primakov, who took office in September, is halfway through his. It is time to step out from the shadows...
...understand this, go to the Vance Elementary School, located a football field or two from the plant. Of course, you cannot actually see the school building. That is because it is surrounded by portable classrooms--17 in all. They are being added at the rate of two a year. Inside the school, the results of crowding 540 pupils (expected to be 700 to 800 within the next two years) into a building designed for 290 are readily apparent--a marked contrast with the roominess of the $30 million training school the state built for Mercedes. Throughout the school day, students...