Word: basic
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...certainly an issue of concern, and people have been working very hard to get it resolved," Brian Roseboro, assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial markets, a key figure among officials monitoring the situation. "It's important that this problem be fixed - we want the basic infrastructure up and working...
...Every plan we consider must be weighed in terms of the costs to the United States, the cost of civilians, and the regional and political costs,” Walsh said. He stressed that there are a variety of options ranging from military action to basic law enforcement and that only time and the facts will deem which are appropriate...
...world, that this attack was an international assault on the principles of freedom reflects the deep and growing kinship within the free world in the face of terrorism. In providing for the common defense, we cannot afford to compromise what it is our aim to protect—the basic freedoms and civil liberties that all Americans enjoy. While increased security measures will no doubt become part of our daily lives, ultimately only the personal liberty our country embodies can combat the intellectual and moral myopia that leads to terrorism...
...venture to suggest that these statistics are alarming. First of all they suggest a lack of basic awareness about the world. Secondly, given Asia’s increasing importance and growing political clout in the international community, it is an academic area that the United States can no longer afford to ignore...
...time that a student volunteers to do a service to fellow students at the University’s request, Harvard has a responsibility to provide basic support. The ability to eat while participating in first-year orientation is not an unreasonable demand. But because Harvard did not live up to this responsibility, numerous groups had to purchase meals for their upperclass leaders out of scarce resources that should have been applied to the orientation programs themselves...