Word: processes
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...That process could have been the coup de grace for Yiddish, a fusion of German, Hebrew and Slavic languages that was the lingua franca of Ashkenazic Jews for most of the past millennium. In this century the language had already suffered the cataclysm of the Holocaust as well as the adoption of English by most North American Jews, the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and the decision by Israel to bypass Yiddish and give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal...
...help a government win the loyalty of its citizens -- or employees. A cash squeeze was in fact one element in the pressure that Washington put on Manuel Noriega by freezing Panama's bank accounts in the U.S. But at year's end the Bush Administration had to throw that process into reverse, when the U.S.-installed administration of President Guillermo Endara was due to pay out $50 million in government salaries and had no money in the till...
...error, and this error has been allowed to skew the entire debate on the subject. There is no theory of life's origin in Darwin's work. True to his title, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin confined himself to describing the process by which new species, including our own, have evolved from the old. In a letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he dismissed all theological pretensions on his part with the words: "A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton...
...proposals advanced in recent weeks concerning Cambodia and a study of all means that might bring an end to armed conflicts on the ground," the ministry said. "It comes at a time when it appears possible to envisage an increased role for the United Nations in the settlement process...
...without knowing in advance what place we'll end up holding in the world we design, so it's not enough to say that citizens of the wealthier society are better off "on average." Each of us has only one life to live, and there is no evening-out process that can allow us, the 99 comfortable members of the Pretty-Good Society, to justify our choice to the wretched hundredth, or to ignore the connection between our wealth and that individual's poverty. Again, the real-world intuition behind Rawls' logic should be clear. When was the last time...