Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown's hard asphalt track, covered with a thin layer of rubber, proved ideal for Crimson hurdlers Chuck Johnson and Kim Stevens, who cruised to victory in the 100 high and 400 intermediate hurdles, recording impressive times...
...Japan's system of capitalism does provide a lesson for the U.S. in one crucial respect. The nation's power elite, which shapes and guides the course of the economy as a whole, practices a democratic ideal that individualistic Americans claim as their own but often seem to ignore: the spirit of compromise and consensus. This has enabled the group-oriented Japanese to apportion wealth and nurture growth in one of the world's most cramped and populous countries...
...ensure that one of our people would serve Ellsberg. One of the earliest dishes on the menu was soup, ideal for the rapid absorption.and wide dispersal of a drug. Hunt was certain that he could provide men from the Miami Cuban community; the drug would be a fast-acting psychedelic such as LSD 25 he said he could get from the CIA. The plan went through Colson. We waited and waited for an answer, but when it finally came in the affirmative, there was no longer enough lead time...
Intense recruitment seems to amount to an admission that this ideal no longer holds; it constitutes an admission of defeat...
...have to. In fact, they ignore the poor, forgetting that the policies they advocate--the policies the government enacts--end up despoiling the underprivileged by increasing concentration of wealth, preventing full employment and decreasing social and economic mobility. The goals of corporate America, Harrington argues, undermine the American ideal they claim to uphold. Harrington understands that most Americans, even those hurt by corporate strategies (such as attacking inflation with high unemployment), subscribe to a national credo of individual opportunity and economic mobility. These national ideals can't be realized when all the opportunities belong to Exxon. Harrington's closely argued...