Word: thresholds
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...speech, "Argentina at the Threshold of the 21st Century: My Vision of My Country and the World," Menem said he faced numerous obstacles in his refashioning of the economic, political and social character of his country...
...lawmakers has been largely to siphon the worst of them out of that system by lowering the age at which juveniles charged with serious crimes -- usually including murder, rape and armed assault -- can be tried in adult courts. Last week California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill lowering the threshold to 14. Earlier this year Arkansas did the same, and Georgia decided that youths from the ages of 14 through 17 who are charged with certain crimes will be tried as adults automatically. This being election time, candidates around the country are engaged in a kind of reverse auction...
Even so, the emergence of a black market for the essential material of mass destruction is a historic and nightmarish challenge for the world. It makes the threat of nuclear proliferation far more urgent and increases the number of characters who could do it themselves. "We've crossed a threshold. You smuggle small amounts of the stuff often enough, and you've got a bomb," says Leonard Spector, director of the nonproliferation project at Washington's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The arrival of these nuclear samples on the German market is a red alert, raising immediate questions about what...
...opportunity opens, it shuts. But I shut it under my own volition. I'm not ready yet. It's going to take a little bit longer for me to fly. So in the end, I guess I'm learning how to lose my childhood. I have stepped over the threshold from Blake's "Innocence" to his "Songs of Experience." Just give me a little time to get comfortable, then I'll really show you what I've got to offer...
...survival of my people. I believe in my people. Nobody will be surprised if I say I love them. They are a small but splendid nation and have a huge potential. One should not spare his own life to save his people. Now, we are standing at the threshold. We either survive or we perish. I want to be with my people at this most difficult time...