Word: runge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, I feel the need to emphasize that I'm by no means against those relentless and tireless human rights activists. The Tiananmen demonstrations were an extreme act to vent people's frustration and has indeed rung the alarm. But remember, the People's Republic of China, as a newly founded republic, is a developing country, currently working its way to catch up with other developed countries. No country is born both free and rich. The process of attaining both goals took America more than 100 years. There is a trade-off here and there is a price...
...uplift of a requiem mass: reductions in welfare spending, ending welfare and Medicaid as absolute entitlements, reductions in the rate of increase in Medicaid assistance to the poor and in the rate of increase in Medicare, cuts in discretionary spending. All these affect those below the middle rung on the economic ladder...
...Yale and what type craves the red-bricked city on a hill? While both schools speak proudly of the tremendous diversity and talents of their student bodies, when it comes down to it, Homo crimsons is a different species from the Homo eli down south. The former stands one rung higher on the ladder of self-motivation...
This thesis is hardly new--Vietnam has long been seen as the lesson that taught reporters to stop automatically believing government handouts--but Prochnau illustrates it in fresh, interesting ways. He recaptures the days when Saigon was still considered a journalistic backwater, a low rung on the promotion ladder for ambitious reporters. And he describes in considerable detail the reporters who arrived there in the early 1960s, particularly Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of United Press International and David Halberstam of the New York Times...
Things got even worse on Saturday for a team that was already on the bottom rung of the Ivy League's ladder. Harvard looked positively awful from the opening whistle. The Crimson lacked intensity, organization and any semblance of an offensive attack...