Word: cherishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indian who is touring the States, I welcomed your reference to the ideals that India's constitution borrowed from the U.S.'s, particularly the fundamental rights of a citizen. Many Indians as well as Americans cherish the slogan "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty...
...more than that. Aspirational clauses are impossible to enforce unless the government runs the economy. Food, jobs, shelter and other needs of that kind are most acute in countries that can least afford to supply them, however handsomely a constitution is composed. Besides, countries like Liberia and Nigeria may cherish the most articulate aspirations, but as T.S. Eliot wrote, "between the idea and the reality . . . falls the shadow." The reality may be one of coups, civil wars and misery...
Such as your country, which, odd to admit, he hopes that you will always cherish, that you will acknowledge the immeasurable good in the place as well as the stupidities and wrongs. If public indignation over the scandals in Washington proves anything, it is that Americans remain innocent enough to believe in government by laws, and to be angered by deceit in power. He hopes that you retain and nurture that innocence, which is your country's saving grace...
...prices and in what the Chinese consider the most attractive surroundings. That may mean a genuinely handsome setting or a seedy, badly lighted room in need of fresh paint and curtains. Hotels have similarly layered facilities. (Hotels also have the cleanest public bathrooms, a feature that tourists come to cherish early...
Similarly, New Englanders who cherish the lingeringly greasy Cape Cod chips, old-fashioned and hand cooked in Hyannis, will find no clue on the package that the company now belongs to Anheuser-Busch. Even Pringle's, the faux chips formed of dehydrated potatoes, now comes in a variety of flavors designed to add character. That goal has not quite been realized, although sales have risen 16% a year since...