Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...some adult -- a teacher, a grandparent, a priest -- who can provide the anchors the family could not. Toure Diggs, 18, grew up in a rough neighborhood of New Haven, Conn., and is now enrolled at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Since his parents separated three years ago, Toure has tried to help raise his brother Landis, who is 7. In the end Toure knows he is competing with the lure of the street for Landis' soul. "You got to start so young," Toure says. "It's like a game. Whoever gets to the kids first, that's how they are going...
...take that prophecy literally to worry about terrorism and other forms of contagion from regional conflicts and from "the wretched of the earth." We should be able to reduce our military commitments in the Third World, but we cannot escape them altogether. It is in our interest to help construct some degree of world order, especially as several Third World countries have nuclear weapons capability. That is also why the U.S. must continue pushing for nonproliferation. And that also strengthens the case for continued development of nuclear defense...
Ideally, the world needs a new view of sovereignty and new structures that would give peoples a sense of autonomy and identity, but within larger regional and rational economic groupings. The U.S., which gave a huge push to the formation of the European Community, can help develop such structures...
...cannot engineer, let alone finance, the success of the free market everywhere. Nor can it be the Good Samaritan to the whole world, although well-targeted foreign aid should continue. But the U.S. must help by seeking an open trading system in which underdeveloped countries can sell their products. Above all, the U.S. must push for economic and political reforms, offering advice and entrepreneurial guidance; one can imagine the Peace Corps being followed by a Development Corps...
...that the private sector is necessarily a model. In many ways American business has let America down. It has often been too bureaucratic, too complacent and unimaginative, too ready to ask for government help, too provincial and isolated from world markets. There are signs of revitalization: industrial productivity is rising slightly; the quality of many products is improving. But we have a long way to go. Moreover, the government will have to invest in America's crumbling infrastructure. This has been done in the past, without damaging our free market...