Word: nationals
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Kennedy proposed a theory of "imperial overstretch," that a nation gains "Great Power" status by using its economic strength to finance a military buildup and undertake a wide array of international obligations. As time goes on, however, such overseas commitments ultimately become a financial drain, eroding the Power's economic base by diverting resources badly needed for domestic investment...
...Martin Scorsese and Robin Leach, among others. For Felder to take charge of the season's most ballyhooed split seemed a fitting turnaround. Mitchelson, 60, who has recently been accused of professional misconduct and even rape, appears to preside over a tarnished empire. Felder, meanwhile, is quickly becoming the nation's No. 1 unplighter of celebrity troths. Says he, modestly: "I'm the hot game in town...
...riots left Liberty City among the least redeemable pieces of real estate in the nation. No private investor in his right mind would risk opening a business on Seventh Avenue, where a looted Pantry Pride grocery hulked on the corner, a symbol of the destruction. Unless local officials did something "very different and dramatic," warned Otis Pitts, Liberty City would erupt again...
They are the nation's second-class citizens. Between 1788 and 1900, their numbers dropped from 300,000 to 93,000. Since then, the Aboriginal population has grown back to 230,000, or 1.3% of Australia's 16 million people. About 11% have never gone to school (vs. 1% of Australian whites), and 30% are unemployed (vs. 7% of whites). The life expectancy of Aborigines is 18 years less than that of whites. Significantly, Aborigines gained the right to vote only 21 years...
...nation's number-one ranked men's basketball team, the Duke Blue Devils, are coming to Cambridge February...