Word: spawns
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...vote is impersonal, any way you construe it. Its value should not be discounted, but the mob mentality is partly right in that a vote won't do much by itself. The mistake we must avoid is allowing helplessness to spawn from that trivial fact. A vote sits only on the fringe of your rights and privileges as an American. You have the right to vote, but you also have the right to volunteer and accomplish much more than your vote possibly could. A Republican administration might well eliminate HOPE 6. Will that negate the will of the hundreds...
...Schieber scheme would spawn significant transition costs requiring new taxes, such as a 1% sales levy, and deficit financing that could grow to $1.2 trillion over 40 years. All three solutions would create different winners and losers. For example, the first plan would favor workers born before 1965. Despite such wrinkles, two factors promise change--the awareness among young voters that the current system will fail them and the prospect of several hundred billion dollars pouring into the stock and bond markets each year. In fact, a massive securities industry lobbying effort has already begun, and at least one investment...
Like his peers in the American gentry, Forbes displays a visceral dislike for lawyers and the suits and rules they spawn that nibble away at hard-earned money. He supports limits on shareholder suits as well as the "English rule," which discourages frivolous litigation by forcing the losing party to pay the other side's fees. The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission loom in his columns as especially power hungry and antiquated. In practice, however, his anti-interventionist instincts aren't so tidy. Forbes has railed against industrial policy, for example, decrying the government-sponsored Sematech...
...other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. "All the basic elements that spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse," says Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx. "There's a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that's a very high-risk group of kids. We're not creating new jobs, and we're not improving education to suit poor people for the jobs that exist...
...females, a statement which would be disturbing in a different context. "If you just harvest females, you have no seeds for later," he says. Using his finger, he took pollen from the males and put it on some of the females so he'll be able to spawn another crop from the current...