Word: idealize
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Even in ancient Greece the Olympics were used as an instrument of international politics. Plato wrote that an ideal Greek state "should send as many athletes as possible to the Games, and the best that can be found, for they will make the city renowned at holy meetings in times of peace, procuring a glory which shall be a counterpart to that which is gained in war; and when they come home, they shall teach the young that the institutions of other states are second-rate when compared to their...
...also a town that pulls its own weight as much as possible and in doing that it is seen as a Republican ideal. When the city decided to build a new mass transit system, says G.O.P. Chairman Meyer, "we didn't send people to Washington for money. We voted a tax to pay for it" When the city and G.O.P. asked for volunteers for nonpaying convention tasks, 20,000 Dallasites stepped forward. The city's share of the convention will be entirely funded by private donations, totaling $3.9 million. "San Francisco spent 8 million bucks...
...accomplishment, not three-fight contracts. "I'm going to wear that gold medal with pride, and then I'm going to put it around my mother's neck," he said. "She deserves it more than me." In a tournament in which it seemed that the amateur ideal of pure sport had taken more than a few shots to the head, this was refreshing indeed. -By Michael Walsh. Reported by BJ. Phillips/Los Angeles
Most malariologists agree that the ideal way to prevent the disease would be with a "cocktail" of vaccines for all three stages. Progress toward that end is now moving swiftly. Researchers in Geneva and Melbourne have been so successful in identifying antigens of the merozoite that they plan to begin animal tests of the vaccine by the end of the year. A gametocyte vaccine is being developed by Dr. Richard Carter at NIH, but much work remains to be done. An experimental vaccine for all three stages may be only a decade away, according to Pathologist Sydney Cohen...
...ideal world, the problems of Mexico City could be solved: overpopulation could be checked, even if harshly, as is being attempted in China; air pollution could be reduced, as in California; government could be decentralized, as in West Germany. But as T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Between the idea/ And the reality,/ Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow." In Mexico City, there is the shadow of ideology, both religious and secular, the shadow of corruption, the shadow of inertia-and always the problems growing faster than the solutions...