Word: happening
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...answer is that there is a basic difference between the money that a country spends domestically, and the money that it spends abroad. When a country runs a deficit abroad, it usually must settle up quickly or else foreign creditors cut it off. When that happens, the debtor country often has to resort to deflation, cutting back on jobs and incomes to reduce demand and imports. In sum, a debtor nation tends to lose some of its sovereignty and freedom of action. No U.S. leader wants that to happen here, but then, none can deny that the U.S. position...
...what do the lines mean? What is the relation between the palm and the future? Many people think that palmistry is a matter of predestination: that the palm indicates exactly what will happen in a lifetime. It is my belief, however, that the palm, if read accurately, gives a very clear indication of what is likely to happen in the course of a given life. There is an old saying about being forewarned and being forearmed, and it is extremely apropos in the matter of palmistry. Assuming that I am right in saying that the palm indicates what is likely...
Asked if he thought the charge would make off-campus living prohibitive, Gill said, "It's hard to predict what's going to happen if the ground-rules are changed. We're looking most of all for a fair and flexible system...
...says Political Scientist Richard Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy Institute for Politics at Harvard, "is the power to persuade." Or, as Stanford Historian Thomas A. Bailey writes: "The Commander-in-Chief is also the Teacher-in-Chief. If he is to get the wheels to move and 'make things happen,' in Woodrow Wilson's phrase, he must educate the people...
...demand moral support for quite personal problems. "Dear God, Do you let your children stay up for Get Smart. I have to know. Linda." Several of the small fry pose questions that defy convincing theological answers: "Dear God, Charles my cat got run over. And if you made it happen you have to tell me why. Harvey." Or: "Dear God, Do good people have to die young? I heard my mommy say that. I am not always good. Yours Truly, Barbara." Though most of the children appear to conceive of God as a bigger-than-life human, a few seem...