Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot explain how "privileged I feel and howvery proud I am to be part of it," Botchwey said."He will go down as one of the century's mostenduring legacies...
...offenses and that a majority of Americans will agree. But matters of principle aside, it's still Clinton's personal psychology that makes surrender a truly unlikely option. To begin with, crisis mobilizes him, as his bounce back after the '94 elections shows. And even in small matters he cannot bear to be bested. As Governor of Arkansas he had a pinball machine placed in the game room of the Governor's mansion. When the seven-year-old son of one of his aides managed a score of 800,000, which beat the Governor's record, Clinton pounded the machine...
...might be reminded that countries do not grow and develop by accident. The environment must be conducive to growth. For this, the government must play a role. All governments are corrupt to one degree or another. But what is certain is that if a country does well, the government cannot be totally corrupt and incompetent. The governments of East Asia are far from perfect, but no one can say they did not bring prosperity as well as real, tangible and personally felt benefits to their people. Such was the progress and potential that investors came in droves...
...long ago. The same systems and practically the same governments ruled these countries for 40 long years. But far from being economically recessive as they are now, these countries grew by leaps and bounds. Surely these governments were responsible for the so-called miracles. And surely these governments alone cannot be the cause of their economic collapse. Yet these governments are being blamed, while the currency traders, foreign capitalists and hot-money stock-market raiders are being praised for their efforts to discipline these governments and force them to change their ways--i.e., adopt the ways of Western governments...
However, I cannot understand why someone would willingly ignore God's great gift of medical knowledge in favor of enduring a health condition that could easily be corrected. Russ Briggs' watching his two babies die in childbirth and then seeking medical help for his own back injury make me wonder about that kind of "faith." ROBERT H. RIES Florence...