Word: life
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...There are no models we are working toward. This struggle between Communism and capitalism has been perverting people's analysis of social issues. The ideologues of these systems behave as if all everybody else has to do is just copy. ((Our goal is)) a better life. Development. Democracy -- not exactly on the Western models. Each country should be allowed to find...
...ideal free-market tax system would be no taxes at all. Taxes discourage productive activity: working, saving, investing. Even President Bush, though, seems to recognize that we can't borrow the entire federal budget. So taxes are necessary. In real life, the ideal free-market tax system is one where taxes affect people's economic decisions as little as possible. That is, a tax system that leaves the world looking as much as possible like one with no taxes...
Every country has its rich and poor, but in Latin America the gap between them is especially vast and is growing worse. The richest 20% of families enjoy a more extravagant life-style than that of the upper class in such industrialized countries as the U.S. and Japan. On the other side is an enormous group, 60% to 80% of the population, whose situation is approaching the despair of sub-Saharan Africa or Bangladesh. Of Argentina's 32 million citizens, close to 10 million are below the poverty line (a family income of less than $100 a month...
This is not the picture of the crack epidemic portrayed by the nightly news. On TV, crack addicts are almost invariably blacks and Hispanics from the ghetto. In real life, the problem is much broader: the number of white middle- and upper-class crack users may equal -- or even exceed -- the total from poor minority communities. No government studies break down crack use by economic status, but William Hopkins, a leading narcotics expert working for the state of New York, estimates that 70% of New York City's drug users are affluent. Across the U.S., drug counselors report rising numbers...
Some were almost impenetrably learned: no ordinary visitor today knows enough about Renaissance astrology to "read" the arcane designs in the Room of the Winds. Others are quite straightforward, like those in the chamber in which Federico had Giulio and his assistants paint life-size effigies of his favorite horses, with their names written underneath them. In between there is an amazing variety of images, some of which seem to teeter between grandeur and farce in a way unheard of in Renaissance art before...