Word: proportionment
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Colombia produces 80 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States, the largest proportion of it in territory under the direct control of the FARC. Taxing the traffickers in exchange for protection earns the Marxist army some $700 million a year, making it easily the wealthiest peasant guerrilla movement...
But although the embarrassment is gone, all is not happily ever after in the state of Kansas. We haven't seen the last of the conservatives, I guarantee. The situation was mishandled, many of the details blown out of proportion.
The White House counters with the valid point that the end of the Cold War spawned multiple crises on more fronts than any previous administration has ever had to deal with. Even then, the charge sticks - the administration has clearly lacked any guiding framework for dealing with those crises and...
The proportion of young French, German and Scandinavian hikers is high on the trail, most Americans preferring the video version, so it's a foreign-exchange experience. You meet sinewy, tanned, multilingual Europeans striding purposefully upward, talking, one assumes, about man's fate and the future of culture and such...
The offensive represents the seeds of what could grow into a serious problem for U.S. agribusiness, which had been betting that science-friendly American consumers would remain immune to any "Frankenfood" backlash cross-pollinating from Europe or Japan. After all, this is (mostly) U.S. technology, and it has spread so...