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...Muslim fighters. Arms are shipped or flown to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, then transferred into Bosnia by lighter aircraft and trucks. But all equipment must pass through Croatia, which has extracted a sizable portion of the weapons that cross its lands. This Croatian usury is unlikely to diminish...
Another Cambridge resident who identified herself as Stacy said the monitors will "diminish the quality of life...
...trade deficit reflects a home-grown problem that can be solved with home-grown remedies. Americans buy more goods than they produce; the difference is imported from abroad. If Americans spent less and saved more, the trade deficit could diminish. Japan, which saves four times more than the U.S., consistently runs trade surpluses. Japan-bashing will not cure America's economic malaise. The remedy is to raise savings--most easily by cutting the Federal budget deficit--and to raise public and private investment...
These limits guarantee frustration for the president and his supporters, and they diminish the possibility that he will fulfill all of his promises soon. Furthermore, the third illusion that Clinton's campaign fostered makes it even less likely that the electorate's high expectations will be satisfied...
...because it fails to choose. But the failure to choose is itself a choice. What it chooses is that people are, or can be, grownups. That too is a value, the notion that we all individually or collectively may be the salvation of one another. Cosmic ignorance does not diminish us, it ennobles...