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...course the only way for the Soviets to maintain their military buildup at the expense of their own peoples standard of living was to erect a totalitarian system. This system ultimately wasted more precious Soviet resources for the upkeep of a massive and unproductive surveillance state which further debilitated Soviet capacities...
...potential to go in a beneficial or detrimental way. It could be very beneficial if, in the process of breaking down internal barriers, it doesn't erect external barriers to the U.S., Japan and other non-European countries. It's up to us to manage the relationship properly so it goes the right...
Even in his most extreme moments of anticlerical shock, Dali remained a Spanish Catholic. He inherited from Spanish devotional art a paralyzing morbidity about flesh. He liked anything that was not erect: running Camembert, soft watches, sagging loaves of flesh held up by crutches. Naturally all this was much more shocking 50 years ago than it is today: Dali was regularly denounced by Fascists and Stalinists alike as a decadent threat to youth. When he could no longer annoy either the bourgeoisie or the self- appointed guardians of the proletariat, he mortally offended the avant- garde by embracing Franco...
They added that the committee, which was formed in response to the faculty's December request that the University "reconsider" plans to erect the five-story hotel on the site, has already met several times...
...trifling details and making them matters of constitutional significance." The legal web has prompted officials to devise ingenious strategies for maintaining holiday displays. Small plots of city properties have been sold to private groups, as in Dearborn, Mich., or declared public parks, as in Downey, Calif., in order to erect creches...