Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...language. We roll our eyes at the same time, we get worked up about the same kinds of injustices, we recognize that we're playing for the same team. In fact, this experience is so gratifying that it's tempting to just stick to our liberal selves and to stop dealing with the other team altogether. When we're talking to each other, we aren't constantly forced to explain ourselves, to start from square one in every argument. We share certain basic tenets and assumptions that allow us to move straight to what feels like a much higher level...
...problems. Too often we end up shutting ourselves off from the opposition and curling up in our comfortable liberal bubble. The ideologically incestuous environment to which this gives rise breeds some of the most significant weaknesses in campus liberalism, and perhaps in liberalism all over. It allows us to stop thinking about the basic principles on which we base our politics, and once we stop questioning these basic principles, we become less responsible in their application...
...right question is whether the WTO standards--to which the U.S. Congress agreed in 1994 --are appropriate. The environmentalists say no, because under WTO rules a country generally can't stop the import of goods from countries on the basis of whether or not we like how those goods have been produced. The U.S. and European trade unions say no, because under WTO rules we generally can't stop the import of goods from countries on the basis of how the workers are treated or how much they earn...
...stop thinking about anything else. It helps me concentrate, makes me feel balanced," says Sae Takada...
...When I was old enough to regulate it myself, I decided to stop," said Berliner. "But when I started again, I felt my general health improve a lot. Blue-green algae gives me a great boost in energy and helps me deal with stress better...