Word: disappearance
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...When Dukakis was elected in 1974 he created a fantasy that if he became governor the state budget deficit would disappear, and the frightening thing is that he believed it," Guzzi said...
HOWEVER, the House and Senate bills clash on the definition of new natural gas. Put bluntly, this debate involves how much of the taxpayers' cash will disappear into the hip pockets of industry. The professed reason for allowing the energy conglomerates to sell newly discovered gas at higher prices is to encourage exploration that would not take place otherwise...
When accused of violating human rights, Marxist-Leninists have usually retorted that once true Communism is established, the dictatorship of the proletariat will disappear, leaving the individual genuinely free for the first time. Meanwhile, though, these facts raise hard questions about the true intentions of the so-called Eurocommunist parties of Italy, France and Spain: after decades of being apologists for totalitarianism, they now profess their commitments to democratic principles. Purged from their platforms is the once obligatory rhetoric calling for violent revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. Italian Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer has said that under...
...energy concerns became paramount among national issues in the mid-70's, the public outcry against pollution declined. But problems do not disappear simply by ignoring them; pollution is still with us. Many powerful pollutants, or, more accurately, a number of industrial poisons, recently have found their way into the environment and ultimately penetrated the human body with disturbing regularity. Consider the following cases...
Professor Said is correct when he writes that "to its victims, history often seems to be an accumulation of sufferings and injustices; but it also has a certain compensating logic, a part of which is that people do not disappear under oppression, they sometimes grow..." It takes a man of letters such as Professor Said to write such a moving passage. It moved me because this is the exact story of Zionism and the Jewish Nation...