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...long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation...And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. Finally...
This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people...
Borders are mankind's way of measuring power. They expand and shrink, bend and break at the touch of human ambition. But as the century's empires came and left, life kept up its relentless pace...
...pace of bank mergers is likely to accelerate as McColl and his rivals battle for market share. "The next five years will make the past five look tame," says Lenny Mendonca, a senior partner at the McKinsey consulting firm. Mendonca says that the number of large national banks could shrink from about 40 today to as few as six or eight shortly after the turn of the century...
...report published in the November 1997issue of Nature, Folkman and his researchteam demonstrated that one of the most powerfulinhibitors they had isolated, endostatin, couldsignificantly shrink tumors in mice...