Word: existing
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...behind Japan's 4%. Inflation is down to 3.5% from a high of 24.2% in 1975. Many Britons have prospered under Thatcher. Partly because of government efforts to encourage the creation of new companies in the services area, 1 million people have jobs that did not exist before Thatcher came to office. In fact, in 1979 only 30% of the British were considered middle class; now nearly half the country fits that description. And through incentives to small business, Thatcher has opened doors to entrepreneurs. For all that, some of Thatcher's countrymen clearly prefer the older Britain, slower paced...
When Cordell Hull, F.D.R.'s Secretary of State, talked of the U.N. as a panacea for world problems, of bringing an end to the era of power politics, he could be forgiven because the U.N. did not yet exist...
...Kenneth has come back to the U.S. to be near his maternal uncle Benn Crader, a man in his 50s and an eminent botanist, revered by fellow specialists for his work on Arctic lichens. Kenneth's obsession with Benn stems from a conviction that "you have no reason to exist unless you believe you can make your life a turning point. A turning point for everybody -- for humankind." The nephew feels his uncle has single-mindedly pursued such a path and might be an appropriate guide: "I thought, Would it be possible to bring to the human world what Uncle...
Harvard officials still have a lot of work in store for them. They say that although the most recent budgetary battles have been won, dangerous problems exist in federal funding for scientific research and student financial...
...alteration she described concerned a 1985 memo from North that referred to the possible sinking or seizure of a ship carrying weapons to Nicaragua. The alteration was made obvious, she acknowledged, because the NSC letterhead paper used for the altered version was new and did not exist when the original was written...