Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Thank you for your article "The Righting of Writing" [May 19]. As a writing consultant numb from seeing writing problems and errors in English, I am glad to know that my effort to help people ex press themselves in a clear and concise way is a priority in the land...
...cannot ignore the awful pressures faced by black people today. We cannot pretend that what happened in Miami was a purely local event flowing from purely local conditions. The pressures that built to an explosion in Miami are present everywhere today ... Yes, we know our days of sacrifice and struggle are not over. Our struggle is for America's soul... Our faith has been sorely tried. It has been burned in the furnace of racial hatreds. But always, black people have revived their faith in America...
...resettled, but the pace promises to wind on just as slowly as in the past. "We're going to do something about the delays," said an Army colonel through a bullhorn last week at Eglin. "We ask your patience just a little while longer." The refugees feel they know otherwise. A sign on one of their tents sums up their anxiety. QUEREMOS SALIDA, reads the scrawled message. WE WANT...
...give an example of poor job satisfaction. If you go to Europe, you will find some of our soldiers trained to operate a Vulcan Air Defense System. And they know how to do that. Their job is to train every day to be ready to go to war with that Vulcan. But if you do not have a place for them to train with their Vulcans, then motivation goes right downhill. And in much of Europe, we don't have training areas available...
Nunn: Theoretically, there is some pay level at which you can get enough quality people for the services. But what level is that? No one really seems to know. And then, could we afford it as a nation? Never in our history have we tried to man our military force at private enterprise rates from recruits...