Word: clings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House column, he will contribute dispatches from around the country under the rubric "Hugh Sidey's America." Says he: "I will go exploring in the open spaces that lie between the great urban centers, trying to figure out what's changing out there, what moves those special people who cling to the land through economic and natural hardship...
...government must be elected, and the defeated parties must agree to form a loyal opposition. In the 36-year history of modern Cambodia, no government has ever been chosen in a fair, contested election. Nor is there a democratic ideal to which Cambodians might cling. Instead, the great national myth is Angkor Wat and the all-powerful god-kings who ruled a millennium ago. Does this mean Cambodia can never have fair elections? No. Does it mean they are unlikely anytime soon...
They vote to double their levy on gasoline but only to pay for highways. -- North Carolina and Massachusetts Democrats select their candidates. -- Congressional cold warriors cling to their gospel, but the politics are dubious...
...sons, ages 8 and 4, are having a deprived childhood, and they resent it. Although virtually all their friends have seen Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, my wife and I have stubbornly refused to let our children join the crowds at the box office. We cling to the old-fashioned, even reactionary, notion that watching one act of violence after another may be harmful to very young minds...
When timber interests first came to Ngau's area in the state of Sarawak in 1977, several thousand natives lived entirely off the forests. But logging and settlement plans have reduced that number to fewer than 500 Penan tribesmen, who still cling to nomadic ways. Even these remaining nomadic clans are threatened by a powerful alliance of Japanese trading companies, merchants and local politicians, who continue to push logging operations ever deeper into the interior...