Word: constant
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...there is also liberation in the constant flux, excitement at the thought that I never return from an excursion quite the way I left. Fate-teasing rides in tin-can auto rickshaws, curiously aromatic meals at hole-in-the-wall dhabas, solitary walks through ancient ruins perched in the center of urban sprawl, they all leave their indelible marks, imprinting the city on my soul and stealing a bit of my life's predictability to make room for what they've left behind...
...state of concern." In a new book, Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy, Robert S. Litwak, a former National Security Council staff member, argues that the term distorts policymaking by demonizing whole countries. Just a handful of nations make up the nuclear club, and these aspiring members are under constant scrutiny. "The ballistic-missile threat is confined, limited and changing relatively slowly," argues Joseph Cirincione, director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project, which is part of the nonprofit Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...takes constant vigilance," says Skip Young, 39, who runs the jewelry store founded by his late grandfather Dana Bushong, who was famous around here for being the man who engraved names on Sheaffer pens. Skip's wife Michele, 37, headed up the local Main Street program for two years, serving as the lieutenant who passed on the National Trust's decades of know-how regarding renovation, business loans, retail niches and the marketing of downtown. "We're not where we want to be yet, but in the 15 years I've lived here, it's got a little better each...
...generous pension scheme and high levels of funding for public education. The have-nots are a cohesive force here, one that has pushed Labor into power and now demands their fair share of the economic rewards. The tally of jobs created is noted everyday, and unemployment is a constant concern, not a quarterly statistic. And unlike America, the poorest are the focus of the majority of the political energy...
This anger against the growing flood of 1 million illegal immigrants a year is rising fast among independent-spirited, gun-toting residents in the borderlands of Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Over the past three years, the number of illegals streaming across the border has remained constant. They come from Mexico, where a third of the people live on $2 a day or less, and from other countries where poverty, national disasters and political upheaval unleash an exodus of refugees. Since the early 1990s, the border patrol has partly sealed the California frontier with its operations "Hold the Line...