Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a trip to Tel Aviv by Egypt's then-President Anwar Sadat, which implicitly recognized Israel's right to exist, to get that process rolling. A move by any of the Arab countries to end the economic boycott, cease the state of war with Israel or simply agree to sit down and talk could lead to similarly significant breakthroughs...
...committees have produced some extremely unpopular decisions, and critics have charged that they merely exist to maintain the status quo, which is slanted against junior faculty...
...first it will be necessary to bring some order to the bewildering array of options. While there are still some doubts that an ideal vaccine can actually be created, some researchers believe that enough good candidates now exist to warrant drastically narrowing the search and selecting the best and the most effective experimental vaccines for major trials in humans. Last month at a meeting of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, scientists and health officials began to lay the groundwork for trials in the U.S. and other nations. In April researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) will begin visiting...
...discipline must come from rank-and-file police with courage enough to break the so-called Blue Code, which prohibits one officer from ratting on another. A few encouraging signs exist that some officers are abandoning the tradition of blind loyalty to one another in misconduct cases. In Houston more than half of all complaints now come from other officers. During the King beating, two California highway-patrol officers reportedly took down the names of those involved from their breast-pocket name tags. They have since testified to investigators...
...democracy, effective law enforcement requires community support. Without it, the concept of ordered liberty is impossible. However true public- police partnerships are fashioned -- and they do exist -- they can never thrive, as the Kerner commissioners put it, "when a substantial segment of the community feels threatened by the police and regards the police as an occupying force...