Word: resulting
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...overall philosophy sometimes seems uncertain, there is no doubt about his skill at the profession of politics. He has a natural instinct for the feel and flavor of it, the ebb and flow of events, the camaraderie of the people involved. His expertise is both instinctive and the result of years of training, first under the aegis of his brothers and then in the Senate. He became a Senator in 1963 at the age of 30, almost inheriting the seat that had once been held by his brother Jack and then kept warm by a Kennedy lieutenant until Teddy reached...
During the four years that the Khmer Rouge cadres of ousted Premier Pol Pot ruled Cambodia, perhaps half the country's 8 million people died as a result of war, disease or starvation. That enormous death toll has grown since the Vietnamese invasion eleven months ago, which imposed Heng Samrin as Cambodia's new leader. Either because crops had not been planted, or because rice fields were destroyed in the fighting, Cambodia's next rice harvest will be sufficient for only 1.75 million people. The remaining 2.25 million Cambodians face death from starvation or related diseases unless...
...mayor, the proposed sale called for the private company to pay the city about one third of the electric system's real value, and to spread payments over a 30-year period without interest. Kucinich refused, and Cleveland Trust declined to roll over the loan. As a result of what he calls "a strike by capital," the city went into default...
Trilling believes in the old rules: the manner and social graces that went out with parietals and dress codes. When Harvard men moved to the Quad, students forgot the rules. The word manners became a buzzword for "elitist" and style was for snobs. The result? Loneliness...
...result, academics say they "had to learn to walk a neutral tightrope," Lee adds. "Teachers and students wouldn't say they were against Park, but they wouldn't say they were for him," she explains...