Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group that must endure the constant burden of discrimination and oppression. I think almost anyone would agree that this nation was founded on the principle that intolerance of any kind should be battled indefatigably until it is defeated. At least, in a perfect world, that is the ideal. At the same time, however, it is counterproductive if victims of discrimination lash out at other victims, just because their respective political agendas may conflict...
...president added that Powell's imminent retirement means that Commencement would be an ideal time for the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to reflect on his career...
...kind of spacious American myth-yard. There the eye sweeps across the Capitol and Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial, the white marbles softened at this time of year by dogwood and cherry blossoms. The mall bespeaks 18th century Enlightenment come to America, a certain lucidity and ideal. The Holocaust museum is like the 20th century Endarkenment, a dense, evil mystery set down in the New World, an ocean away from where it happened...
...earth. At the time, they were inconsequential creatures, perhaps the size of dogs, living among far more imposing giant crocodiles and other reptiles. During Triassic times, the continents were stuck together in a single mass that scientists call Pangaea. The planet was warmer and rainier than it is today -- ideal conditions for the growth of vast forests along coastlines and adjacent to rivers. Conifers, horsetails, tree ferns and ginkgos were the dominant vegetation. Giant 3-ft. dragonflies whirred through the air, and 18-in. cockroaches scuttled along the forest floor. The seas teemed with mollusks, algae and large marine reptiles...
...Nizhni Novgorod city council, "but this will be the last time." Lyudmila Yakutin, a bank inspector in the city, was more firmly for Yeltsin: "The President must have the power, not those windbags" in parliament, she said. Yes, agreed economist Yevgeni Kozlov, Yeltsin may not be the ideal choice, but he is definitely "preferable to that chaotic Congress...