Word: thrive
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Language should reflect the beliefs of the times. At Harvard, where the current attitude seems to favor allowing differences to thrive in a pluralistic setting, gender specific language is not always a bad thing; indeed, it is often necessary in obtaining a clear meaning. By comprehending where the line between fairness and factual accuracy lies, we will all understand each other much better...
...start leveling the regulatory mountain, Hosokawa will first have to evict bureaucrats who thrive in its shelter. The bureaucracy has effectively run Japan for the past four decades, and it battens on its power -- not to mention the plum private-sector jobs that go to many senior government officials when they retire. A recent study by Tokyo Shoko Research, for example, discovered that nearly 1 in 5 construction-company board members is a former bureaucrat...
...strategy, including hundreds of local rallies, letter and fax campaigns and vigils outside the offices of fence- sitting Congressmen, has put to rest complaints by early critics that Perot was more interested in swelling the organization's size than setting it loose on the issues. Yet the group should thrive regardless of Wednesday's vote in Congress. If NAFTA dies, new members will be attracted by success, moving on to new issues, such as term limits and Clinton's health plan, or re-visiting the deficit. If NAFTA triumphs, Perot's following, which has always thrived on his outsider...
...overriding U.S. national interest is an open world in which America can thrive. (That is why protectionism and the anti-NAFTA campaign, merely other forms of isolationism, are so dangerous.) But such a world will not even be approached without American ideas, initiatives and sustained, sophisticated presidential leadership. Power takes many forms, and it seems that Clinton does not yet fully understand the uses of power. The opposite of isolationism is not necessarily intervention but constant, consistent engagement in the world. That is what you should ask of Bill Clinton: the foreign equivalent of his domestic "permanent campaign...
...only thrive if students as well asfaculty take a serious interest in it," he said...