Word: dreaming
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...right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy... It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. .. The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July . . . Confidence has defined our course . . . We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence . . . Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American...
Silicon Valley is the Yuppie stronghold, and the computer boom has contributed significantly to the renewed faith in American ingenuity and, more broadly, in the American dream of boundless opportunity. The country's economic future, when viewed through a silvery high-tech scrim, does indeed look exciting. Moreover, the 21st century seems to be mingling with the 19th: entrepreneurism, led by the high-tech vanguard, has been imbued with a quasipatriotic urgency...
...December the homeland of Kwandebele, a grubby, dirt-poor, black farming district to the north of Pretoria, will become the country's fifth "independent" homeland, thereby bringing Verwoerd's dream to the halfway mark. In the process, another 250,000 blacks will be written out of South Africa's official population figures and added to the more than 5 million already classified as citizens of the other four homelands. Kwandebele has just one paved road, no resident doctor, an acute water shortage, and employment opportunities for only about 2% of its people. The rest must find jobs...
...would receive the religion post, at least for now. Instead, Peres will hold the position for the next few weeks while a solution is worked out. How did the bleary-eyed Peres feel about forming a government only three days before the deadline? "I have had no time to dream dreams," he said. "I don't believe we are going to a vacation spot...
...paper, the squad is anybody's season opener dream. Graduation appears to have made a bad team worse, and what to expect from last year's Ivy League traveling circus is anyone's guess...