Word: existing
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...What exists in Eastern Europe -- mostly antiquated factories, worthless currency and a socialist hangover -- will have to be replaced. What does not exist -- a commercial banking system, marketing networks, cost accounting -- will have to be created from scratch. The biggest hope for the future of the old socialist world is its very well-educated work force and a high level of science and technology...
...simply theft (usually punishable by imprisonment) but a sin against the social order. Without the indulgence of the nobility, the peasants could not even acquire salt, the indispensable ingredient for preserving meat and flavoring a culinary culture that possessed few spices. Though a true money economy did not exist, salt could be bought with poorly circulated coin, which the lord hoarded in his castle and dispensed to the poor only as alms...
...first, I merely was amused to recognize from my espionage reporting days that almost all the gadgets portrayed--with the possible exceptions of the high-mathematics all-code breaker--actually exist, and are available comercially...
Papaconstantinou denies this charge "categorically: I have never seen any document or heard anything of this sort. We want them ((the Macedonians)) to exist ((as a separate state)); we want them as a buffer zone" between Greece and Serbia. "The authorities in Skopje ((the Macedonian capital)) can change their name to anything except Macedonia," and that will remove "a point of friction in the Balkans...
...examples above--the French Table, the Hasty Pudding Club--most of us recognize the group culture's uniqueness and right to exist. But when it comes to all-male clubs, in Boston or at Harvard, there arises a resistance to accord them the same rights...