- Debilitating
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- Nov 07, 2020
America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America's Fortune 500 companies.
- Equity
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- Nov 07, 2020
America should be about owning a piece of the rock, about letting every worker have equity and share in the returns to capital.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has the potential to lead the world in energy production and, in the process, to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in output - generating considerable tax revenue.
- Fugitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
- Flagrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.
- Alleviate
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- Nov 07, 2020