Word: exist
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Whatever the criticism, Cardoen takes a hard-nosed view of his business dealings. "I don't know of any good weapons," he once told an interviewer. "The weapons shouldn't exist. The problem is the human beings who use them...
...converting uranium ore to weapons-grade uranium 235. "I don't know of anyone who disagrees with the consensus that enrichment is a long-term threat, not an immediate one," says an intelligence official. "You can't bomb their enrichment or weapons- fabrication plants, because they don't exist...
...Montreal Massacre, by its remoteness in place and in the degree of the brutality, may seem to some observers to be unrelated to the Harvard/Radcliffe community. It is not unrelated. The seeds of violence are here, as everywhere. They exist in deeply rooted differences of belief, in individual intolerance, uncertainties, and frustration, in institutional inertia, and in intensly competitive situations with high personal stakes. Civilisation is a fragile veneer requiring constant vigilance and effort to sustain. It requires everyone to make commitments for the common good...
...hardly ease a national crisis, but it is a start. Says John Porter, Detroit's retiring superintendent: "Harvard needs to tell these people there is no answer unless someone comes up with a vaccine. The fundamental issue is that the right conditions in cities to educate children don't exist." But the very existence of the Harvard course proclaims that simply throwing up one's hands will...
...Mencken. When he moved to New York from the Midwest three years ago, Teachout was dismayed to discover that the city was, as he puts it, "hostile to civilized friendship." There was little opportunity for people of his age and ideology to coalesce for intellectual sustenance. "Conservatives and libertarians exist in an adversary culture," he explains. "You need a community where you don't have to be arguing first causes all the time." Teachout and George Sim Johnston, 38, who has quit investment banking to be a writer full time, decided to set up a kind of salon...