Word: soundly
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Although it may sound overly jingoistic, the apathy of the American populace is due to its satisfaction with its political system. Because our political spectrum is one of the narrowest in the world, debates tend to focus on very similar options--for example, whether to increase or decrease nuclear weapon funding, rather than whether or not to abolish nuclear weapons entirely. Thus, supporters of one side of an argument don't stand to lose very much in the event of defeat...
...power. The fact is that despite deep and beneficial American influence, Philippine society has always had difficulty in sustaining democracy. When Marcos declared martial law, the country was in violent turmoil. For years his regime was quite tolerable because it provided stability, and supporting Marcos was a sound U.S. policy --up to a point. Exactly when that point was reached is hard to determine. It can be argued that the U.S. should have pulled back from Marcos well before the assassination of Benigno Aquino. Maybe. But such decisions are not simple, at least for people with responsibilities in the real...
...laws; choices must be made case by case with subtlety, sophistication and patience. Differences of degree as well as kind must be recognized. It is not enough to put governments into two files, democratic and undemocratic. There are regimes that are improving and regimes that are deteriorating. There are sound and unsound democracies, tolerable and intolerable dictatorships, more or less repression. Even "corruption," so offensive to most Americans, comes in different degrees and must be judged--and fought--in a local context and in the light of local mores. It is the precarious business of statesmanship to recognize these differences...
...mere fertilization is a reason for the high five." Interfamilial wars particularly stir his | juices. "Always end the name of your child with a vowel," he counsels, "so that when you yell, the name will carry." The generations must ever gap. "No matter how he talks, a father cannot sound hip to his children." But he has to hang in there. A father must "never say, 'Get the kids out of here, I'm trying to watch TV.' If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the 6 o'clock news...
...Arkie was not in the match until [Gerken] wasserving for the match," Fish said. "At thechange-over, I told him `this is how you become ahero."' That may sound easy, but coming back fromfour match points is no easy task...