Word: element
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...exploitation of Marik, Volodya and Dima exemplifies the single most unsavory element of the worldwide growth in the sex trade: an explosion in child prostitution, driven in part by the fear of AIDS. In Moscow alone an estimated 1,000 boys and girls of tender age are selling their bodies. Three years ago, police say, there were only a very few. A similar rise in child prostitution has occurred in other Russian and East European cities. In the ( Third World the numbers are also staggering: an estimated 800,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand, 400,000 in India...
...This decision to have an election by April 27 introduces an element of irreversibility. It is a landmark...
...where Abraham and his family are supposedly buried -- is Come Out come out. Projected on five huge video screens, the interviews -- all in answer to the question, Who is Abraham? -- are treated both as the opera's text and as its musical raw material, from which Reich draws every element of his score...
Because Clinton embodies these qualities and has overcome a number of minor setbacks, "Clinton has even more of an element of success, as an individual, than even Roosevelt," Peterson says. "But this is a world where the parties are stronger than they were during the New Deal, there is no coherence in Congress, and Clinton has to deal with many more complex issues...
Elmendorf also criticizes Clinton's spending plan. Although he praises Clinton's planned reductions in defense and bureaucratic spending, Elmendorf says "the element missing is a serious reduction in benefit programs for retirees...