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...primary sources of fedayeen strength are the Palestinian refugees, now 1,500,000 strong, who for 20 years have been a scattered and forlorn people, possessing neither a country nor any say in the harsh events profoundly affecting them. Dispossessed of their homes, lands and sense of nationhood when Israel was founded in 1948, they dispersed throughout the Middle East. They endured the scorn of their host populations toward outsiders, although the most skilled and educated came to dominate many areas of Arab intellectual and commercial life. Those that did not assimilate settled in crowded camps, mostly in Jordan...
...emulation. On the other hand, when Rocky's aggression was highly successful in amassing rewarding resources, he was chosen by most of the children as the preferred model for imitation. The surprising finding, however, is that without exception these children were highly critical of his behavior (e.g., "Rocky is harsh" ... "Rough and bossy" ... "Mean" ... "Wicked" ... "He whack people...
...international prices of their goods as a 4 or 5 per cent upward revaluation would have had. (But adjusting export taxes does not have the same psychological impact on speculators that a revaluation has, and the Germans knew that, too.) And their position wasn't really so harsh, once it had been stripped of its vindictiveness. They were asking why they should sacrifice any of Germany's hard-earned prosperity simply because the English and French couldn't manage their economies and their currencies and keep pace. And, put that way, it doesn't seem so unreasonable a question...
Resolving the differences will require each nation to sacrifice some monetary sovereignty and turn over more authority to the International Monetary Fund. But the harsh fact is that the current, outdated system has already cost much sovereignty by forcing nations to take unwanted and potentially unhealthy steps to raise taxes, restrict trade and deflate economic growth for the sake of sound money...
Helpless and Hopeless. A likely answer is that people are just plain scared of crime, and so, as a result, they either ignore it or else demand harsh retaliation. In turn, the U.S. penal system punishes criminal symptoms rather than cures criminal causes. The product is more crime...