Word: cravings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students are already willing to work for Powell is an indication of his widespread support. For example, no student group organized on this campus to assist Ross Perot in the last election. Powell is not only seen as a more realistic presidential candidate but the nation also seems to crave his leadership and steadfastness...
...stop the outlets from proliferating because I need my phone, my fax, my modem. I crave the dope, the nitrous, the crack. I die without your sustenance, your community. I am nothing when deprived of that liaison with power...
...potential for getting our own genes into the next generation. But the same forces now fuel a growing population that is rapidly destroying the natural world. The reproductive behavior that helped us survive as a species may no longer be beneficial. DON C. SCHMITZ Tallahassee, Florida What we crave is people--the closeness of relatives, the cup of sugar a neighbor hands over the fence and the unexpected guest for dinner. These are not Darwin's so-called social instincts but the valuable fruits of peace and contentment. They are never gained by quick phone calls, handshakes, cards, promises...
...threats." Those could involve seizing the loot Abacha & Co. are believed to have stashed in the U.S. and Europe, or even boycotting Nigerian oil. But such punitive measures will not work without moral pressure from those who have allowed the dictators' behavior to pass unchallenged. Above all, Nigerians crave the respect of the rest of the world. Freeing Obasanjo and the other political prisoners would be a tiny first step in showing they deserve...
...moment there is no realistic alternative to the revolutionary institutions that govern Iran, but in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s there was no obvious alternative to the Communist Party, and still it collapsed. Moreover, Iran is threatened by the pull of Western culture and democracy. Iranians crave the prosperity they see in the West- but especially the West's freedom to think, live and speak as they wish...