Word: likely
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...fact, that was not what Waller said, but perhaps he should have. Like any prudent general, Waller was being supercautious. "The military services never tell you they've got enough," says a senior admiral. "They always want just a few more...
CALIFORNIA is suffering the full impact of the taxpayers' revolt of the 1980s. Proposition 13, the 1978 referendum that froze property taxes at 1% of assessed value, depleted county treasuries, leaving the state to pick up the bills for things like schools and welfare services. Now California faces a $1.5 billion budget gap that is expected to swell to $6.5 billion by 1994. Incoming Governor Pete Wilson is refusing to rule out the possibility of higher taxes. But he also wants more freedom from constraints imposed by the state constitution and voter initiatives and laws that earmark much...
...regret that I might be remembered solely as someone associated with martial law. While I understand the drama of that moment, I would like also to be remembered as the initiator of the round-table talks with Solidarity in 1989. This was a breakthrough, and it became an example for others. It is not that the man who declared martial law and the one who initiated the round- table talks were two totally different people. One might even say that had it not been for martial law, there could have been no round table...
...idea of bestness, however, like a list itself, is an illusion. There is no "best." Bestness is a way of making something subjective appear objective. And best lists are a collection of the biases, or at least the interests, of those who make them. These lists incite a certain introspection too. For example, some of the Values That Made a Resurgence This Year...
...home stretch to the millennium.The end of a century, let alone a millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...