Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...root of the problem is neither renegade coaches nor avaricious institutions. It is a matter of societal values gone awry. "Don't blame the coaches for the problem of exploitation in our country," says Gayle Hopkins, an assistant athletic director at the University of Arizona. "Blame some of the communities that only respond to winning at any cost...
...First, we do not know their location. Second, we don't know who the kidnapers are. Any miscalculation in approaching this matter may result in the death of hostages rather than in saving their lives. In the past, a number of our soldiers were killed in attempts to find the hostages, but despite that we could not find them. A number of hostages have been released with our help, but we could not help all of them. We hope in the future our efforts will help all of them as it has helped those in the past...
...Suspicions don't affect our positions. If people judged one another based only on suspicions, we would see a new world war break out every day just on the basis of suspicions. Nobody can prove P.F.L.P.-G.C. involvement in the matter. No one has any evidence. If there is something new in the matter, whoever produces it, we hope he will let us know about...
...matter how many times people test their water or how carefully they read the labels of food packages or how closely they scan the newspapers for reports of pesticide scares, they can never be 100% sure that what they eat and drink is 100% safe. Such a guarantee has never existed and never will. Nonetheless, the odds of surviving the daily chemical feast seem pretty good. If food and water were as dangerous as some people think, a lot more of us would be getting sick. U.S. food and water supplies have undeniable problems that need increased attention from...
What most angered the party's parliamentary caucus was the State President's unilateral announcement two weeks ago that there would be no national elections this year. Parliament's term expires in September, and a new body must be elected within six months. Not only are elections a party matter, which should have been decided by De Klerk, but the caucus was eager to call an election as early as May to take advantage of pratfalls by the opposition parties. Botha protests that he is "not looking for power for the sake of power," and does "not cling to posts...