Word: systemize
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...simple questions - like why so many students died in Sichuan. It is about demanding answers and accountability from one's government. If Chinese citizens do that, then this 60th anniversary will not just be about the Party congratulating itself. It will be the final hurrah of a dying system...
...many recent articles and letters in the Des Moines Register. Lifelong Republicans have vowed never to vote for him again. Iowa ranks third in the nation in percentage of people over 85 and, no doubt, in Medicare recipients, so we know what a government-run, one-payer system can do, and most of us are demanding that a public option be included. So when Grassley puts on his flannel shirt and poses for pictures on a red tractor in his campaign for re-election next year, he will face an uphill battle. Priscilla Brown, Cedar Falls, Iowa...
...Capitalism, he's back outside the gates of GM--which, after declaring bankruptcy, was far less solvent than Moore. Talk about the little guy triumphing over the system: somehow, in the past 20 years, the free-enterprise system has been kinder to the agitprop indie filmmaker than to his auto-giant adversary. A man who made his career attacking corporate America has become a pretty big business himself...
...viable missile-defense system has long been the holy grail of U.S. military planners. One of the earliest national strategies, conceived during the Johnson Administration and based on research begun under Dwight Eisenhower, called for nuclear-tipped rockets that could head off an incoming missile by exploding in its path. A day after Richard Nixon unveiled the first operational version, known as Safeguard, Congress shut it down, citing costs and a general reluctance to scatter warheads across the country. In 1983, Ronald Reagan called for a nonnuclear approach, inevitably nicknamed Star Wars, that would destroy missiles from space using...
Missile defense continues to ebb and flow with the perceptions of nuclear threat. Since 2002, the Pentagon has pumped more than $60 billion into new antimissile missiles now on guard against North Korean launches in the Pacific. But the system--likened to hitting a bullet with a bullet--too often fails what are essentially open-book tests. That it could annihilate an actual warhead is still an article of faith...