Word: nation
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AMERICANS generally moan and groan and vote incumbent presidents out of office on those rare occasions when the nation's annual inflation rate hits double digits...
...inevitably mumble something about "yankee imperialism" and "ruthless American multinationals," the vast majority of Argentines know better: namely that throughout the past 45 years, their economy, along with the Soviet Union's, has been the world's most mismanaged. In fact, Argentina has become the classic example of a nation that, simply through misguided economic policies, has virtually destroyed its once-competitive position in the world economy...
...Sarney is caught between conflicting, and sometimes violent, forces within his nation. On one side are the settlers and developers, often backed by corrupt politicians, who are razing the forests to lay claim to the land. On the other are hundreds of fledgling conservation groups, along with the Indian tribes and rubber tappers whose way of life will be destroyed if the forests disappear. The clash has already produced the world's most celebrated environmental martyr, Chico Mendes, a leader of the rubber tappers who was murdered for trying to stand in the way of ranchers...
...Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds heritage. Normally I only share these slightly outre sentiments with close friends. But such views have become a public issue with drug czar William Bennett's attacks on my generation's self-indulgence, coupled with George Bush's prime-time address to the nation on drugs. For in identifying those responsible for the cocaine crisis, the President pointedly included "everyone who looks the other way." Am I really a fellow traveler in this epidemic of addiction? Do my affectionate, albeit distant, ties to 1960s-style permissiveness render me as culpable as Bennett claims...
...drug use, as Bennett argues, is indeed a reflection of the nation's values. And as long as American society continues to place a higher premium on titillation than truth and on callousness than compassion, the latest attack on drugs may prove, like all the failed battle plans of the past, to be mostly futile flag waving...