Word: basic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rezso Nyers, told Bush. "We need a currency that is convertible. The question is, Can we get it fast enough to keep things moving? We know that reform means instability in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary. At the same time, we know we need foreign capital. Most basic is, How do we reform the thinking of our people who for the past 40 years have not been told how the world works...
Surely you are not surprised that I would look to you for leadership. After all, as the nation's most-quoted expert on constitutional law, who would better understand why protecting flag-burning is so essential to basic civil liberties? And as a heralded liberal (whom many say will have his own seat on the Court someday), who could better weather the political storm and take the unpopular but moral stand...
...know that its been almost 20 years since you studied political philosophy as an undergraduate. But I can't believe that you have forgotten the basic principle--as put forth by Mill and his contemporaries--that the unshackled expression of ideas is essential to the survival of a free society...
Equality of opportuntiy at its most basic level--a uniform education system that does not abandon any of its charges and a Justice Department that enforces the legislation it is sworn to uphold--is what is required...
...Foreign Ministry expressed "great regret" over the Paris summit's statement, which it said "violates the most basic criterion of diplomatic relations...