Word: existing
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Perhaps the most common way of making peace with death -- getting over it, in a sense -- is by thinking of it as a way to "meet one's maker." Religions of every kind might almost be said to exist to help us deal with our extinction. They tell us that something is waiting for us on the other side, that death may be a pilgrimage and not a destination, that the afterlife is a warm awakening after the fretful dream of life. The huge best seller Embraced by the Light returns from the hereafter with the news that "all experiences...
That our boys (there were no girls on the team this year) were operating at an exalted level is clear by a glance at the test questions, which featured few of what most Americans would recognize as numbers. One of them read as follows: "Show that there exists a set A of positive integers with the following property: for any infinite set S of primes there exist positive integers m in A and n not in A each of which is a product of k distinct elements of S for some k greater than...
...Records from the period of time when [Lee and Sword] were running it didn't exist" when the University investigated, Taylor says...
...problems of independence: We have so many, you couldn't list them all. The basic problem is how to change the mind-set of people. This is really the key to establishing a truly independent state. When the U.S.S.R. ceased to exist, all the newly emerged countries, including Russia, experienced a certain euphoria. But it soon became clear that political independence was not the most important goal for people. Economic independence has proved to be much more important...
...Clinton model, but their alliances are voluntary and without regulatory authority. Dole's bill neither mandates nor prohibits alliances but allows self-employed individuals and small employers to purchase the Federal Employees Health Benefit plan. The House Ways and Means and House Education and Labor bills would broaden the existing Medicare system into a national purchasing pool. Education and Labor permits states to create mandatory pools. Senate Finance offers a choice between the federal employees' plan, and, where they exist, voluntary health alliances. All plans subsidize the purcahse of insurance by poor people at varying levels...