Word: drives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whenever students are alive and alert and sober, and sane and serious, you drive America forward. Whenever students turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short-term pleasures without long-term failures, it slows down the machinery, slows down the quest for justice and for peace...
Then there are the tourists. "The pyramids," laments Hawass, "are the only monuments in the world where you can drive up and park your car. Even in Disneyland you have to park a mile away." Last year alone 1,969,493 visitors came to look at -- and touch and breathe on -- Egypt's treasures. Just six people breathing inside a tomb for an hour can raise the humidity by 5 percentage points. And higher humidity provides a hospitable environment for bacteria, algae and fungi that grow on paintings. Sighs Hassan: "Three thousand people a day visit King Tut's tomb...
Such efforts will not keep pace with the inexorable deterioration of the monuments unless the Egyptians can speed up their preservation drive. That is why Mubarak's visit to Luxor, the first since he took office in 1981, was so significant. He not only called for a restoration of the Luxor Temple but also a halt to urban encroachments on all archaeological sites. If Mubarak does throw his power behind preservation, he may encourage the Egyptians to take charge of their own priceless heritage and other nations to lend a hand as well. After all, if the monuments...
...Soviet Union trying to drive a wedge into the alliance by persuading West Germany to push for the elimination of tactical nuclear weapons...
...have absolutely no intention of trying to drive a wedge between the NATO allies. But we do have a position of principle. We must begin negotiating the reduction and eventual elimination of tactical nuclear missiles. We shall in the future be even more aggressive in pursuing this goal because it is in the interest of all European nations, the Soviet Union and the U.S. Why can't we negotiate along parallel tracks on strategic weapons, conventional arms, chemical weapons and also tactical nuclear weapons? And then, later on, we shall discuss the naval forces, which is a topic the West...