Word: blocs
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...believe Russia and the U.S. are united in their effort to make Europe a truly unified, peaceful and democratic community of peoples. We disagree about the ways of achieving this aim. I proceed from the fact that the end of the age of bloc confrontation has made redundant the old logic of a military-political rivalry, where opposing nations did their best to fill a geopolitical "vacuum" and divided whole continents into zones of influence. This is particularly true of Europe. We do not think the real problems of European security can be resolved by expanding nato to the East...
...G.O.P. welfare bill would convert the federal program that feeds needy women, infants and children into a bloc grant and give individual states the right to decide the program's nutritional guidelines. That means current restrictions on the sugar content in cereal, which allow the purchase of dowdy old Cheerios but not the more sugary Raisin Bran, would become a thing of the past. As a result, says Joseph Stewart, a senior vice president of Raisin Bran's maker, Kellogg, "Raisin Bran could no longer be denied the opportunity to participate in this program...
...part, funded through mandatory private savings, would pay all Americans retirement benefits pegged to their actual contributions. But if the change is to take place, it would be better to have it before the immense claims of retiring baby boomers send the system into shock-and create a huge bloc of pensioners fiercely invested in the status quo. Also before a resentful younger generation, faced with the prospect of giant tax hikes, starts practicing reform with a sledgehammer...
Specter's tactical strategy is to allow the other hopefuls to split the conservative bloc while he holds on to the more moderate voters, including those who say they are pro-choice. It is a long shot, but one he can put into perspective: 20 months ago, doctors told him that a brain tumor would probably kill him in three to six weeks. "You want to do a little more," he says of his outlook after the operation, in which the tumor was removed and found to be benign. "Taking on a presidential run is a very big step...
Yavlinsky is head of the Yabloko Bloc, a democratic reform party. Political pollsters in Russia currently consider him the leading challenger to Boris Yeltsin in the next presidential election, scheduled...