Word: existing
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Reality, however is somewhat different. The Palestine Liberation Organization has repeatedly called for direct negotiations with Israel, articulated its adherence to all United Nations resolutions including 242 and 338, and stated its willingness to accept Israel's existence in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. In January of this year, Yassir Arafat asserted that the PLO would "recognize Israel's right to exist if it and the United States accept PLO participation in an international Middle East Peace conference...
...public rest rooms in America really are this bad. But you already knew that. You've been in cities where they don't exist or can't be found. You've eaten in restaurants where the sign in the grimy broom-closet rest room says EMPLOYEES MUST WASH THEIR HANDS, but you hope they don't because it could only make things worse...
...Solidarity must exist. And Solidarity must be legalized. However, it should not be the same Solidarity as in 1980. This time we must be cleverer, better, stronger to succeed. We want the existing official unions, about which we now have reservations, to remain trade unions. But these trade unions must be pluralistic...
...ands or buts -- the best collection of Japanese painting of the period outside Japan. In its new setting, Price writes in the catalog, "the art is to be experienced, not studied" -- by natural light through the walls, as the Edo artists intended, without the spotlights that did not exist in 18th century Japan. On any given day one may see perhaps a dozen screens and a dozen scrolls hanging in the main cell of the pavilion. They are to change once a month. Since the building cost some $12.7 million, this must be the lowest density of art per dollar...
Tuchman's view of history is gravely classical. She is a tragedian who mounts the past against the fixed backdrop of human nature. Reason and goodwill exist but are like the stars in the heavens: flashes of enlightenment separated by vast expanses of darkness. "Halfway 'between truth and endless error,' " she concludes, "the mold of the species is permanent...