Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Vietnam was conceived as a Wilsonian venture. However wrong yesterday's hawks were in many respects, they were right that communism spelled ruin and misery for the peoples of Southeast Asia...
Then one day last spring volunteers swarmed like carpenter ants over the Hartsville, S.C., neighborhood, slapping paint, hammering walls, shingling roofs, shoring up porches. By day's end, Ketter's house, like 37 others in town, had been delivered from ruin. "I didn't know something like this could happen," marveled Ketter, 34, who is pregnant with her second child. "This will make all the difference in my life...
...message for the students, a call for sensitivity: "I grew up here. You're here for four years. Don't ruin my one night out, spending Dad's money...
Gorbachev is blamed for the crisis in the economy. But the Soviet system for providing its citizens with the basics of life has always been a cruel and hopeless mess. Perestroika has been largely a matter of restructuring a ruin, a contradiction in terms that makes for a sorry spectacle. Yet the world is, as never before, invited to watch. Glasnost has led to a kind of reverse, and perverse, Potemkinism, a post-Soviet tendency to portray the situation as even worse than...
WHAT'S the solution? One alternative approach would be to wait for economic sanctions to ruin Iraq's economy. The destruction of Nicaragua's economy by U.S. sanctions--though they were relatively weak and took several years to work--illustrates that military force is not our only foreign policy tool...