Word: basic
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...there is a glaring exception. It's a basic presidential responsibility, but we sometimes overlook it or think of it as an economic or technical matter rather than a profound moral one. In three short years, this President has so ramped up government spending that he has turned a fiscal surplus into a huge and mounting debt. Far from taking responsibility for the nation's finances, the President has shirked basic housekeeping and foisted crippling debt on the next generation. If a President is in some sense the father of an extended family, Bush is fast becoming a deadbeat...
...eject the monarchy and take the country into Stalinist isolation. The guerrillas have an attachment to an antique dogma that borders on the bizarre in the 21st century. Much to the embarrassment of the modern Chinese leadership to the north, they studiously model their uprising on Mao Zedong's Basic Tactics (1937) and On Guerrilla Warfare (1937). Their rhetoric is filled with an idealism and romance elsewhere found only in history books. "We want to turn this beautiful Himalayan country into an invincible red fort and a shining trench of world proletariat revolution," declared Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai before...
...basic principle and credo on which a great research university stands is the idea that the world can be better and better understood, and as a consequence of that better understanding it can become a better place,” he said...
...intention of surrendering the hundreds of settlements Israel has built throughout the West Bank and Gaza were relieved by the Oslo Accords requirement that they turn over those cities to a Palestinian gendarmerie - having to resume day-to-day patrols, let alone take responsibility for health, education and basic services in the streets of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron could exponentially raise Israel's casualty figures...
...speculative pursuit. But experts like Park have good reason to be nervous about the economic ramifications if Kim were to fall and the two Koreas were to move toward reunification. North Korea's gross national product is less than 4% the size of the South's. The North needs basic roads and power plants, new technology and factories, and food and jobs for an estimated 23 million starving citizens. Marcus Noland, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, says $600 billion will be needed over 10 years to raise incomes in the North...