Word: vanishingly
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...temperatures up as much as 6 degrees F by the year 2100--an increase in heat comparable to the warming that ended the last Ice Age and with perhaps equally profound effects on climate. Huge swaths of densely populated land could be inundated by rising seas. Entire ecosystems could vanish as rainfall and temperature patterns shift. Droughts, floods and storms could become more severe. Says Michael Oppenheimer, a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund: "I think this is a watershed moment in the public debate on global warming...
That's exactly what Republican critics accuse the NEA and the NEH of doing. Moreover, if the flat-tax enthusiasts in the G.O.P. have their way, private and corporate arts subsidies--especially gifts to museums--will vanish as tax-deduction inducements evaporate. This will destroy the mechanism that made American museum collections great. There is no sign that anyone in Congress has thought this through. And why? Because frankly, my dear, we don't give a damn...
...real anguish remaining at the heart of this vexed relationship will never be easily washed away, of course. The fact that America lost a cause draped in the noblest rhetoric but fought on cynical and divisive terms produced a sense of lingering self-doubt that may never vanish. In a significant way, though, the principles for which the war was waged are ascendant today in Vietnam. The free-market spirit of Saigon is what counts, not the Marxist maunderings of some old men in Hanoi. The Vietnamese, who lost many more lives than Americans did along the streets, rivers...
...claims would lead to the first budget surplus since 1969, aims to bring to an end decades of federal deficits by wrenching an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in savings from budgets over the next seven years.Medicare and Medicaid would take the biggest hitsand hundreds of other federal programs would vanish. But majority House members -- unlike senators, who today began debating their $961 billion measure -- would try toease the painwith $350 billion in tax breaks for families, corporations and investors. Said the plan's chief architect,House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich(R-Ohio): "The 21st century is about the power...
...outraged Henry David Thoreau wrote, "How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." Angry rhetoric is not new. But neither is America's balm for it. Thoreau would vanish into the woods of Walden to deal quietly with despair. And in the moments of silence Americans devote to contemplating the probable causes of the horrors of Oklahoma, another venerable piece of Thoreau's advice should resurface: "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." --Reported by Sam Allis/Boston and Nina Burleigh, James...