Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human community, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place," Kentucky farmer- philosopher Wendell Berry told Iowans last year in a lecture on the work of local culture. "Country people more and more live like city people, and so connive in their own ruin. More and more country people, like city people, allow their economic and social standards to be set by television and salesmen and outside experts...
...Bush Administration is upping the ante. In addition to pulling out of Cambodia, Viet Nam must contribute to what Washington calls a comprehensive settlement of the civil war the departing occupiers leave behind. By the Administration's definition, that requires the inclusion of the murderous Khmer Rouge in a coalition, along with two non-Communist Cambodian factions and the current Vietnamese-backed rulers in Phnom Penh...
October is supposed to be the month of reckoning for the Federal Government, as a new fiscal year begins and the budget is hammered out. In the next four weeks, Congress and the Bush Administration must raise the federal debt ceiling to $3.1 trillion, find a way to reduce next year's deficit -- on paper at least -- to $110 billion, and scrounge for funds to finance the drug war, educational reform and cleanups of the HUD mess and even of the storm-ravaged South Carolina coast...
When Braniff airlines suddenly canceled virtually all its 256 daily flights last Wednesday, many customers must have had a sinking sense of deja vu. Just five years after the airline emerged from a two-year bout with Chapter 11, Braniff said it was filing for bankruptcy protection once again. The company's decision seemed all the more abrupt because only last May it moved its headquarters from Dallas to Orlando and ordered 50 new Airbus A320 jetliners for $2 billion...
...changed in U.S. society in the past generation -- legal abortion, the growing acceptance of single motherhood, new concerns about infertility -- that people looking to become parents face a most intricate enterprise. Possessing a scarce resource, birth mothers can often dictate their terms; operating in a crowded marketplace, adoptive parents must be ingenious and relentless in their search and accommodating in their negotiations. As middlemen, the old-fashioned agencies must now compete with newfangled lawyers and adoption consultants. Sometimes, as with Nicole, the groundwork is laid by an organization with a radical new approach known as "cooperative adoption." Most...