Word: obvious
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This change is a real revolution, but it is being accomplished noiselessly. All the obvious disadvantages of a mechanized society aside, the fact is that some of our more recent machines have allowed people to publish their own books, to produce their own films, to accept their own diversity. More significantly, they are encouraged to do those things. Eventually we will need to establish a new unity of thought, if our nation is to progress into yours with some improvement. For the moment, however, the effects of regaining individual responsibility are liberalizing, even though it is said that we live...
...best way to limit the damage, Nixon counseled the President, is to make a new, strong push for a Soviet-American summit and arms treaty in 1987. Nixon reportedly believes that Reagan needs a big foreign policy win to counteract recent setbacks, and arms control offers the most obvious opportunity...
...another shock to come: that some of the profits of the arms-for-hostages deal may have ended up financing pro-contra political advertisements and perhaps even the campaigns of pro-contra congressional candidates. That charge is being made publicly by Democrats who have little evidence and obvious axes to grind, but it is a suspicion that is being voiced within the Executive Branch as well. According to one Government source, the Iranian arms profits were diverted into a political slush fund. According to another source close to the FBI, the bureau is "looking into the possibility of a connection...
Some 25,00 Afghan children have been sent to the Soviet Union for 'education' in the obvious Soviet hope of creating a future pro-Soviet elite. Afghanistan's history is being rewritten in order to suit the new regime. Russian has been substituted for English as the first foreign language in Afghan schools. The rudimentary education system which existed in the countryside, where 80 percent of the population lives, has been swept away. Many of Afganistan's ancestral monuments, for example the mosques in Herat (considered as international landmarks by UNESCO) have been seriously damaged by the fighting...
According to Wooster athletic director Al Van Wie, Moore was an obvious standout in college. "Blake was probably the true student athlete," says Van Wie. "He was a leader both in football and in campus life...