Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America. Sad because children in underprivileged neighborhoods have been so thoroughly conditioned to defend their pride with knee-jerk reactions, that they do so even when an act is born not of pity, but of simple kindness. And a world where kindness cannot exist is nowhere to live...
Cosmas feels that dictatorial governments in developing countries have institutionalized poverty, so an "enabling environment" for the enforcement of human rights does not exist...
Legitimate objections to the Crimson Key Society do exist. For instance, the organization has been criticized for presenting a sugar-coated picture of life at Harvard. Yet the staff's position does not provide a rational critique of the society or of its policies. Instead, it takes an unsuccessful event as an excuse for some petty bashing...
...following his arguments, illustrated as they are by plentiful examples from scores. There are tantalizing references to such lost works as a symphony, a piano concerto and the opera A Guest of Honor, which was registered for copyright in 1903, although no copy of the score is known to exist...
Meanwhile, the fat-cat dollar was gallivanting about the bond and stock markets, having an enriching experience. This the average bankroll couldn't do: bonds came in large denominations; bond funds didn't exist. Stocks bought in small quantities were called odd lots, like they were some kind of defective merchandise. The odd-lotters were mystified by stocks, and with good reason: the brokerage houses informed their big clients about every important development, but the small clients were the last to know...