Word: existences
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long time, most Alaskans were not disturbed by any of this. They assumed that the two Alaskas -- one wild and the other industrial -- could exist in harmony. Surely the logging companies would not be able to make a noticeable dent in the state's vast forests. Surely the bears and wolves and snow geese would not be bothered by a few oil rigs...
Experts like Clifton Curtis, executive director of the Washington-based Oceanic Society, say state and federal officials should be stricter about enforcing the safety laws that already exist for handling oil, require tankers to be equipped with double hulls for added leakage protection, and impose tough personnel rules that would ban convicted drunken drivers from tanker commands. Other reasonable proposals include updating the training standards for tanker pilots and crews, and requiring oil companies to test employees for drug and alcohol abuse...
...work on public opinion in Israel and the United States," explains a senior Bush adviser, "and try to channel those pressures in constructive directions." So for the time being, the Administration feels that the best policy is one of patient incrementalism. "The President does not believe conditions now exist for making peace, but he would like to see those conditions fostered, step by step," said the U.S. official. "Time is on our side." That, however, may mean years -- and a change in Prime Ministers...
THIS is not to say that problems in need of financial remedy do not exist at Harvard. I just wonder why I have to give $25 (the recommended amount, "payable by August 31, 1989," according to my IRS-sounding class gift agents). I won't even be making any money for three or four more years...
Obviously, there is no basis for stereotypes that larger women are more likely to be lesbians, or that all women athletes are large and muscular. But this characterization, and the attached stigma, still exist...