Word: nevertheless
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...Government's role in education policy, unlike that of its foreign competitors, is strictly curtailed by the Constitution. That encourages innovation at the state and local level, which, in such states as New Jersey and South Carolina, has yielded impressive gains in educational performance. Nevertheless, there are many ways in which the Federal Government can assist financially pressed school systems without unduly intruding into such thorny issues as the exact courses in a curriculum. The objective of federal policy should be to relieve school systems of burdens they cannot manage well while depriving them of excuses for failing to accomplish...
...Nevertheless, the journalists agreed that America's selection of presidential candidates would remain a story that the foreign media could hardly ignore. "The U.S. is the most powerful country in the world," said Zevi Ghivelder, a TV Manchete commentator. "Don't you think that in the days of ancient Rome all the world worried as to who was going to be the next Caesar...
...Nevertheless, the perception lingers that justice remains far from color- blind. "There is a view in this country that if you're poor and black or Hispanic or Native American, you won't get a fair deal," says James B. Eaglin, chairman of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. "And the basic contentions that there are biases at every level of the system are well founded...
...thunderstorm pounding Mexico City was fierce enough to suggest that the ancient Aztec deities were mightily displeased. Nevertheless, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas had no trouble assembling more than 100 journalists last Monday night outside his mother's house, the unofficial headquarters of his quixotic presidential campaign. "The figures that we have received show that I have won," he intoned as lightning sliced ominously through the black sky. "We won. Definitely." At precisely that moment, the house went pitch dark, the electricity knocked out by the storm...
...Nevertheless, AIDS is primarily associated with white, middle-class homosexuals, not only because of their numbers and high casualty rate but also because they are better organized and more articulate than other afflicted groups. It is somewhat patronizing to note that from Sappho to Capote, homosexuals have enriched Western literature. Today AIDS has put gay writers in the vortex of journalism...