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...events, I mean a second dip in the economy. Secondly, if the casualties persist. Another year of this. We had a worse month now than we did during the war. Some issues have to neutralize as well for the Democrats to win. If gay marriage becomes a salient issue, they can’t win, because you can’t win with arguments like that in the middle part of the country...
...think it’s the issue that is most salient on the Harvard campus...
...pair circled each other for another round, Summers replying that the decreased purchasing power of the endowment was the more salient statistic, necessitating the Faculty’s frugality...
...narrator, Hoffman seems a newcomer to the political realm, but no less jaded for his self-imposed separation from politics. The documentary follows the 2000 presidential election (the original plan was to release The Last Party on inauguration day, but complications arose), and, though it draws attention to some salient issues, it leaves the audience in the end sharing the same hopeless apathy Hoffman expresses from the documentary’s beginning...
...given enough of either commodity to do everything its stingy member nations demand of it. In 2001, about 5,000 Bangladeshis participated in peace-keeping operations along with only 1,000 US soldiers and 100 Chinese. Instead of burning the U.N. flag, perhaps last week’s Salient should have considered a mass burning of the flags of the US, Britain, Russia, China and 187 other states...