Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternatives to the "Brother, can you spare a dime" scenario could arise. It is unlikely that beggars will purchase credit card readers so that their daily clients can simply slide through for a $.25 transfer. Even if the technology was easily portable, too many methods of perpetrating electronic fraud exist to make the system trustworthy...
...should the U.S. maintain economic sanctions against Castro if it is willing to trade with Hanoi and Beijing?'' asks a European diplomat. A senior Clinton official can only reply, ``History matters.'' The Administration, he says, ``probably wouldn't seek to create an embargo if it didn't already exist. But there's been one for a long time, and to get rid of it now would send a message that Castro should be legitimized...
...Records from the period of time when [Lee andSword] were running it didn't exist" when theUniversity investigated, Taylor said after theindictments were handed down. "We had an auditorcome in who made a number of recommendations...
...very stimulating, and I think it's very good for an author. If you go on a tour, you meet your readers, and you do a signing, like the Boston one, and it's good, because the books really exist for their readers. I think I'm very privileged to have the chance to get about on a tour like this and meet the readers, when many writers don't. It can be tiring, but it's very worth-while...
...behalf. Having representatives make laws for citizens has merit. But in such a system, we lose the input of others who may be more qualified than the legislators to judge, or we may fail to hear from those who will be affected. A pure form of democracy does exist in a country of economic and political stability: Switzerland. Why haven't more countries imitated this model? The answer lies in the type of person attracted to politics in the democratic system, which bestows power, prestige and privilege. Politicians are not about to voluntarily give up their status. We have...