Word: ideality
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...Internal Revenue Service estimates these deposits are costing the U.S. alone $70 billion a year in uncollected taxes. But tax havens, with their anonymity and lax oversight, aren't just for tax cheats. They're also an ideal financial way station for terrorists, who want to park money out of sight until they need it to pay for training camps or to pull off an attack...
...disasters of the day. Generally, it has failed. In Rwanda, Srebrenica, East Timor, Kosovo and elsewhere, its influence was not great enough to stop genocide, ethnic cleansing and other horrors. Too much at odds to act in concert, the nations of the world were content to let the founding ideal of the U.N.--universal social justice--shatter...
...Washington, a city they know well, with their grandsons, 2 and 5. "I find it exciting to see things through the eyes of the little guys," says Elaine. "They loved the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, going into the space capsule, the moon rocks." Many grandparents say the ideal years for these jaunts are between 9 and 13, when the kids are old enough to take an interest in new things and young enough to retain their imagination and enthusiasm...
...second problem the government needs to confront is that the worst failure was in counterintelligence. The ideal philosophy in counterintelligence is, "We presume there are bad guys who are out to get us and we need to figure out how to stop them." Unfortunately, that?s not evident anywhere in the intelligence community right now, except perhaps in the cyber-terrorism subsections...
Though the condition of the river is still not ideal, the overwhelming consensus is that it is safe, and indisputably cleaner than in the not-so-distant past...