Word: destroying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer pays to be innovative and highly successful in marketing one's ideas in America. The nonachievers, well aware of their paucity of brains, attempt to destroy the successful at every turn. PAUL J. FROST Camas, Wash...
...standards, for example, may appear to be an obviously good idea, but Third World countries are in rebellion against any attempt to enforce them - for the simple reason that cheap labor is all many of them have to offer in the world economy, and enforcing minimum standards may actually destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs in the developing world. Why would a U.S. apparel manufacturer have its wares manufactured in China if it had to pay American-level wages? So just as what's good for business isn't always good for all of society, what's good...
...little we know is clear enough: HIV, a virus transmitted by bodily fluids, is contracted most often through unprotected sexual contact. It lies dormant within the body for anywhere from six months to, in a few cases, decades, and then appears to destroy the immune system. Drug treatment can delay the effects, but in the end, HIV weakens the immune system to the point where an opportunistic infection, something the body normally could fight easily, runs uncontrolled and causes death...
...says Valerie Cooper, executive director of the NVA, who claims scam artists don't represent the bulk of law-abiding viatical providers, like Page & Associates and the Ardan Group. Gloria Wolk, chief consumer advocate for viaticals www.viatical-expert.net) is worried that money for legitimate viatical settlements could disappear: "Fraud can destroy this industry and leave patients high...
...heart doesn't have to be governed by a one-party system. "If you are married, but you meet someone in the office you fall in love with, what do you do?" asks Hill. Most of us have to give up someone. "But that's so painful. People destroy themselves, destroy their families over that. All I'm saying is, we have choices...