Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like clean air and water, a reduced budget deficit is a public good: everyone benefits from it. At the same time, though, it is in each person's private interest to fight to defend his particular piece of the Government spending pie. Ultimately, America's prosperity will depend on whether its leaders have the courage to put the public good above private interests...
...method the group uses to teach others about the faith is "firesides," bimonthly discussion sessions open to non-Baha'is--as are most of the group's activities--which center around a particular topic such as "If There is Only One God Why Are There So Many Religions...
Baha'is give a variety of reasons for adopting their chosen faith, but one in particular stands out: the logicality and open-mindedness which they find in their religion...
...laughing) I think I was needed just for the transition, when people had to find somebody they could believe in, someone not out of the traditional political mold. Somehow, in the people's perception, I fit that particular role. But I am sure that six years from now, there will be many qualified people, and I will have earned a well-deserved rest...
...taken aback by the unprecedented Soviet coverage of ethnic rioting in Alma-Ata, capital of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. Despite such newfound candor, however, Gorbachev has been unable to shake the opprobrium created in the West by human-rights violations in general and the Sakharov case in particular...