Word: existance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...democratic character of the nation he leads, and that while retaliation is surely justified, in Israel especially nothing good can come from its blunt application. Because, as Rabin said, "real peace here will come only when the Arabs move" from their grudging acceptance of "the fact of our existence" to an appreciation of Israel's "right to exist. Our power can guarantee us as fact probably forever, but who wants to live like that...
...media enthusiasts bedeviled by vaporware--products hyped before they exist--should thrill to the rare appearance of its opposite. Call it ghostware: technology that is alive and well today with no one (or almost no one) sensing its presence...
...schools where the enrollment is 90% to 100% minority--that is, black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American. In the Northeast, the country's most segregated region, half of all black students attend such schools. "We have already seen the maximum amount of racial mixing in public schools that will exist in our lifetime," says University of Indiana law professor Kevin Brown, an expert on race and education. The combination of legal revisionism and residential segregation is effectively ending America's bold attempt to integrate the public schools...
Chicago's case was heard by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which really does exist and is considered the final arbiter on the subject of which building is the tallest. Chicago argued that a tall building ought to be measured to its highest occupied floor rather than to its structural top. That would make the Sears Towers taller than the Kuala Lumpur building, which gets its final 242 ft. of height from some decorative spires that I believe are referred to in the local dialect as tchotchkes...
...crematoriums and the bones of those heaped anonymously into mass graves, it was unquestionably the rebirth and independence of the State of Israel. The 600,000 poorly equipped Jewish survivors-turned-soldiers who fought against the tide of 50,000,000 Arabs-ironically for the very same right to exist that had just been denied them by an uncaring, apathetic world community-were again given what amounted to an insignificant amount of assistance in the fight for sovereignty. The subsequent miraculous victory in the 1948 War of Independence will be recalled in Israel a week from tomorrow on Israel...