Word: shared
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Granted, the United States's share of the world manufacturing output has fallen from over 40 percent after World War II to around 16 percent today. But the reduction of America's overwhelming predominance in the world economy was a result that America deliberately sought, on the grounds that an economically secure Western Europe and Japan were crucial to containing communism and providing for a stable post-war world, thereby enhancing America's international position in the long run. To cite the economic rehabilitation of Western Europe and Japan through the Marshall Plan and demilitarization as causes of the United...
America may be in the midst of a long-term decline, not because of the Europeans' failure to pay for "their share" of NATO's defense or because of protective measures by the Japanese government, but because it refuses to promote national savings and encourage investment. Instead of blaming Japan for our inability to compete abroad or accusing our European allies of being responsible for our deficits, the United States should realize that it cannot continue to pursue such reckless, consumption-oriented fiscal policies in the years to come and that it must reinvest in job training, education, and research...
Officially, China is a champion of black-African interests. The government has denounced South Africa's policy of apartheid and devoted the lion's share of its scanty foreign aid to assisting 45 friendly African states. Beijing also gives scholarships to 1,600 black students each year to study at Chinese universities. Unofficially, though, many Chinese consider blacks racially inferior and question their government's aid to Africa when citizens at home are tightening their belts...
...spawned innumerable imitations -- all proved what extraordinary good can be reaped from one person's crusade. Faced with a desperate need, many new volunteers see not only a moral challenge but also a tactical one: to do as much as possible with as little as possible, and then share the idea, to allow it to spread...
When Han states that "athletes without scholarly abilities add nothing to Harvard's intellectual community," she implies that academic criteria are waived for exceptional athletes. First and foremost, Harvard is an academic institution, and academic achievement is the primary criterion for admission. What all Harvard students share is a certain standard of academic achievement. What creates Harvard's amazing diversity is its unification of students talented in areas outside the classroom, beyond the academic excellence of each. However, talent in only one area is not enough to justify admission. No applicant, athlete or not, who lacks scholarly ability is admitted...