Word: se
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Another group of students raised a more serious objection. They didn't mind the sukkah per se, but they found the "Harvest Festival" that was held in it on Sunday night to be a tasteless, almost cynical manipulation of religious traditions in the name of multicultural diversity. The festival incorporated Jewish, Chinese and neo-pagan ideas about the harvest season. Several Chinese students door-dropped a "silent protest" to residents, arguing that the differences between religious traditions should not be blurred...
...embracing a balanced budget, however, the President did not reject the notion that government has an affirmative role to play in people's lives. Indeed, our analysis suggested that the 1994 election was not a rejection of government per se; it was a rejection of big, intrusive government. The President emphasized a view endorsed by well over two-thirds of the American people: a fiscally prudent government can still provide decent medical care for senior citizens and children, a high-quality educational system for young people and protection for the environment...
...advance guard of the capitalism that arrived in Moscow was armies of speculators, barons of the black market, gangs of drug dealers, armed, aggressive racketeers, brutal, ruthless, powerful mafias. People were terrified. It is not capitalism per se but the form in which it first appeared that supplied Communists with fresh followers. I remember walking around Moscow with my friend Syoma. The city was cold and dirty. One could easily break one's leg because the sidewalks, uncleared for months, were covered with mountains of ice. The squares and the streets near train and subway stations overflowed with vendors peddling...
...Rather than looking at poverty per se, we were particularly interested in whether health status is affected by the relative wealth or deprivation in a population," Kawachi said. "We also looked at racial differences to see if mortality were influenced by race. We found that the problem of shortened lives, because of income inequality, potentially affects all U.S. citizens, not just the poor or historically undeserved groups such as African Americans...
...millions of perfectly wonderful, high-functioning young people, my own children and most of their friends included. Studies that attempt to distinguish between the effects of divorce and those of the income decline so often experienced by divorced mothers have found no lasting psychological damage attributable to divorce per se. Check out a typical college dorm, and you'll find people enthusiastically achieving and forming attachments until late into the night. Ask about family, and you'll hear about Mom and Dad...and Stepmom and Stepdad...