Word: existing
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Myrdal worked for disarmament because she feared that as long as these weapons exist the world is in danger. In her 1976 book, "The Game of Disarmament," she wrote, "It is no exaggeration to say that unless significant decreases are soon achieved, it is difficult to see how catastrophe can be avoided...
WHEN THIS Dr. Jeckyll-Mr. Hyde metamorphosis hits Harvardians, the rest of the world may as well not exist. Academia and all of its pressing concerns are forgotten. Cramming for the Ec 10 final or getting a start on second semester assignments is exchanged for the zealous pursuit of weather-induced pleasure. The Yard is transformed from the major thoroughfare to and from lecture halls into a playground for the happy residents of Camp Harvard. When an exotic storm or heat wave hits, camp is in session. Enjoyment of weather-related activities becomes the sole raison d'etre, and passions...
...orchestra should abandon its historic home, the Academy of Music, and build a larger hall, better equipped for television and more acoustically suitable to symphonic music. By the time Ormandy died at 85 last March, the Philadelphia sound he had nurtured for so long had practically ceased to exist...
...University's recent actions regarding sexual harassment, final clubs and discrimination--which each dealt with the most fundamental questions of equal rights and equal access--prove that this place is capable of change, capable of solving those problems that do still exist. Those problems probably won't be solved today, tomorrow or within a year. Most of them probably won't be solved by the time the Class of 1989 graduates...
...society can exist, of course, without placing some restrictions on its members, and it's also true, no doubt, that the list must lengthen as economies become more complex and citizens more interdependent. But, recognition of that necessity, coupled with the original liberal premise that the state exists to maximize the real freedom of its members, should make us the more loathe to accept any limitation that is not essential to preserving some good greater than liberty...