Word: existing
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...potential on the one hand and the reality on the other is still frighteningly wide, even within America. Americans of non-European descent are still having to struggle to achieve for themselves their full rights as American citizens, equal with all others. Extreme poverty, and even hunger, exist among a sizable minority of American people. There appears to be almost a breakdown of many of the public and communal services which are vital to civilized life and in respect of which we would expect America to be an example to the rest of struggling humanity...
Whatever course businessmen eventually follow, the worst fears of production bottlenecks and inflationary material shortages seem farfetched at present. Consumers have not launched a spending spree so frenetic that it could lead to an overheated economy by the end of next year. Still, the possibility does exist, and until corporations begin to open their purses in earnest, spending plans will continue to attract anxious attention...
...says. Hay, who hails from Pennsylvania Dutch country, said he had talked about the liberal absence with his delegations, and many agreed that "we are seeing the fruits of the McGovern push in 1972. The party has realized that you'd better open up or you don't exist." Into that vacuum of battles won stepped Carter, and like many liberals of Hay's nature, he says, "Carter...
Unfortunately, such tolerance and sloppy thinking has been largely responsible for the turmoil and suffering and disgraceful actions now taking place at all levels of our society. And the Communists couldn't be happier. Because they realize that a free and civilized society can exist only in an atmosphere of morality, where mores and traditions are observed and cherished. Sex scandals in government, perversion in the arts, widespread permissiveness, attacks on the family, dirty dress and speech, drugs, lack of manners, exotic and occult philosophies, these make up the kind of world we find ourselves in today. The Communists...
...modishly defended. The artist must be granted his subject; only his execution of it is up for review. Lieberman is simply following the novelistic tradition (begun by Daniel Defoe) of piling up the minutiae in order to tell society about its own workings. Horribly mangled bodies and autopsy rooms exist, as do the dispassionate technicians who must clean up the messes that others create...