Word: decays
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Does society not like drugs because they are bad, or are drugs bad because society does not like them? In his column of April 23, "Ignoring Internal Decay," Joshua Kaufman offers several arguments condemning drug users and drug dealers. He concludes that Blankenship and David, two students accused of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, LSD, mushrooms and ecstasy, deserve punishment if guilty. But to agree that society should condemn the actions of such students, one should examine which of Kaufman's arguments rest on bad qualities inherent in drugs and their dealers, and which rest on society's dislike...
...consciousness, and whether or not we succeed is up to the people." But what would bring about revolution? It is the Japanese way to face adversity with a simple appeal to gaman, which translates more or less as "hang tough and don't complain." Perhaps anguish over Japan's decay will push people beyond gaman and put wind at the back of radicals like Ozawa and other reformers. Failing that, Japan could turn into a graying has-been of the industrial world...
...salesman in trouble and in debt. As his wealthy father in-law won't knowingly help, Jerry decides to kidnap the in-law's daughter, his own wife. He expects the ransom money will solve most of his problems. This twisted idea is emblematic of the moral decay that contaminates many characters in "Fargo...
American foreign-language competency eroded in the years following the mid-1960s decay of college-curriculum foreign language requirements. No analysis reveals more quickly the appalling betrayal of American public schools by liberal arts colleges than any inquiry into that decay...
...undergraduate days, the Hallicrafters brought news of the decay of the French West African Empire, the enduring South American boundary disputes, and above all, the deepening provincialism of a United States at war in a former French colony it considered wholly Asian. Accidental daybreak listening lured me into programming directed at non-American listeners deeply intrigued by all things American, including the vagaries of American English. For 35 years I listened, lately with a magnificent solid-state receiver I rescued one graduation day from a curbside trash barrel and refitted with a long copper antenna, realizing that my hour...