Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials defended the strategy, saying they had acted decisively. But it is a gamble that could destroy what is left of public confidence in the Mexican economy. Even American retailers along the border who rely on Mexican patronage will probably experience reduced sales. Moreover, the falling peso will surely fan the country's raging inflation. Prices are now rising at an annual rate of 141%, the highest level in Mexican history...
...Savannah to Great Society efforts to clear their slums accounts for those cities' remarkably intact historic districts today.) In the mid-'60s, 1,600 federally supported urban-renewal projects were under way in nearly 800 American cities. Not only in Viet Nam was the U.S. Government proposing to destroy the town in order to save...
...kills their time, robs their attention and stunts their development. Use it often enough in your teen years, and you get to adulthood having lost crucial months, years, of emotional and intellectual growth. Second, marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs, the stuff like cocaine and heroin that can destroy people in very short order...
Although earlier drafts of the majority report accused the Administration of a cover-up, that term is not included in the final version. However, the report details the bumbled investigation by Attorney General Edwin Meese, which allowed North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, time to destroy documents. It criticizes efforts by North, Robert McFarlane and others to falsify testimony that former CIA Director William Casey was to deliver to Congress. Says a staffer: "Even if it doesn't say 'cover-up,' the majority report makes clear that people were trying to keep other people from knowing what had been going...
...think that discrimination on social and moral levels should be a legal issue and Japan doesn't," said Upham, the author of "Law and Social Change in Post-War Japan." He added that if America were to mimic Japan's legal system, "It would destroy the value we place on individual rights, which may be the only value we have left...