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...essential one, peripheral until communism crumbled in the East, is between "deepening" and "widening": Should Western Europe accelerate its drive toward closer economic and political integration among the 12 members of the European Community, or reach out beyond them to the impoverished, bewildered East European countries as they grope their way toward viable free- market economies? Britain -- and increasingly the German government -- argues that priority should be given to developing assistance programs for the fragile Eastern democracies, whose political stability and economic recovery are essential for all of Europe...
...will have to painfully grope our way toward a health care system that will be worthy of our aspirations," Relman said...
...trying now: a grope for words...
...Beirut magically materializes in their living room. Far more surprising, and a bit unnerving, was the eerie sensation Tuesday night: the tidy coherence and instant packaging that normally make television such a reassuring national touchstone were replaced by the unusual experience of watching as the medium was forced to grope in the dark. "When you're used to being able to flick switches and have things pop up on satellites, it's frustrating and even terrifying to realize that you have no way of finding out the dimensions of a disaster," says Robert Murphy, ABC's vice president of news...
Mostly the fine ensemble of young actors who are members of the film's eponymous secret society (notably Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke) grope with energetic sobriety toward an idea that Keating keeps putting to them every way he can. It is this: the business of education is not to gather facts but to find a ruling passion, something around which you can organize your life. This is a point that seems to elude most kids nowadays, probably because it is one that their popular culture rarely troubles to make to them...