Word: existences
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...possessed it. If anything, Colombia was the aggrieved party. With American connivance, Colombian rebels "liberated" the isthmus from the Bogota government in 1903 and turned the rights to build the canal over to the U.S. Panama and its canal came to life together; without the canal, Panama could scarcely exist as a viable nation. Canal revenues account for some 25% of Panama's gross national product, 20% of its employment and almost 40% of its foreign exchange earnings. Thanks to the canal, Panamanians have one of the highest per capita incomes of any nation in Latin America: a still...
...apartheid. "People can never really appreciate what racism is unless they paint their faces and try to exist under conditions blacks are expected to survive in this country...
...Niki Janus [assistant athletic director] almost every day," said Levin. "They were receptive to the idea, but were just concerned about whether there would be a long-term commitment from the women to the team. They didn't want to throw away money on something that wouldn't exist next year...
...more pervasive and more influential than ever, an increasing number of governments in the developing world are committed to lowering fertility, and an even larger number to supporting family-planning programs. Family-planning services are essential, but can succeed only to the extent that a demand for lower fertility exists. That demand apparently does not now exist in sufficient strength in most of the developing countries. There are a number of policy actions that governments can take to help stimulate the demand. None of them is easy to implement. All of them require some reallocation of scarce resources. Some...
...retort the advocates, of affirmative action. Says Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League: "Opponents of affirmative-action programs live in some kind of dream world where people truly advance on their merits and all is efficiently governed by a neutral merit system. That world does not exist. Merit is socially defined." Colleges, for example, have traditionally favored not only middle-class males but also sons of alumni. For all the progress in desegregation, blacks still must surmount a crushing residue of two centuries of discrimination in acquiring the tools and attitudes required to compete in U.S. society...