Word: fractionalism
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...large fraction of the faculties throughout the nation are composed of professors tenured in the 1950s and 1960s in response to the expanding student enrollments of the baby boom generation. "If the mandatory age is uncapped when these professors reach retirement age in the next 12 years, they will clog up the tenure system," says Shattuck...
...consider the anomaly of refugees from totalitarianism repudiating life in America. Though they were not the first Soviet emigres to do an about face, the most recent repatriates made up the largest and most highly publicized group to do so. And even though the 50 represented a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who have left Russia in the last two decades, the existence of even a small number of people wanting to return seemed a slap in the face. The whole scenario strained credibility: How could anyone voluntarily give up American freedom for Soviet totalitarianism...
...Scammon, a political expert who loves the thunder of combat, wonders somewhat sadly if we have "become too sophisticated for ideology." The level of education, awareness and understanding increases geometrically with every election. Government programs cushion and encourage almost everyone in the nation in some way. Only a small fraction of the population is now outside the system, a phenomenon that tends to discourage boat rockers. The farmers in trouble are not penniless tenants on somebody else's land; they are farm owners, capitalists who risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter how dispiriting. And when...
...provide the Palestinians with better housing so as to have a steady supply of "dirty and deprived young boys to send on suicide missions inside of Israel." This is too simplistic. Most Palestinian refugee camps are outside of Israel's borders and Israel has only offered to house a fraction of them-hence helping to explain the existence of these refugee camps in the first place...
...long as there are sovereign states with conflicting ideologies. Unlike Aladdin with his lamp, we have no way to force the nuclear genie back into the bottle. A world without nuclear weapons is a utopian dream. Whichever party (there are more than two) successfully cheated and preserved even a fraction of its arsenal could achieve dominance. Even if all parties were actually to abide by an agreement to destroy strategic arms, all would, out of sheer prudence, be poised to resume production and deployment. Given that imprint of nuclear capabilities on our minds, to seek total nuclear disarmament...