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Citizens, it was thought, had to become more self-reliant; government welfare programs were making everyone soft and dependent.
For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights. Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
The problem exists in all countries affected by the threat of terrorism, though in many it has not become quite as specific.
And yet there is no denying that the world has become too intricate for any simple, overarching theory to explain complex economic, technological, demographic, and environmental shifts.
Sustainability can be achieved only when the haves become willing to sacrifice for the have-nots.
I said that Pakistan would inevitably follow suit and the world would become less safe.
Nigerian officials have become fabulously wealthy, owing to decades of payoffs by international companies that have plundered the delta's natural wealth.
The bad news is that it has become increasingly clear that, at least for large countries, currency areas will be highly unstable unless they follow national borders.
The aim must be not only to win back the hearts of Europeans who have become skeptical, but also to convince them that the Union is indispensable to meeting the challenges Europeans face.
Its people have become powerful, arrogant, and enormously rich.
Like former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, the only other KGB man to rule Russia, Putin will become the party's general secretary.
And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.
The confederation I advocate would thus constitute an intermediate stage (lasting five or ten years), at the end of which Kosovo is likely to become fully independent.
So, instead of retiring gracefully, as presidents from Bill Clinton to Boris Yeltsin routinely do, Kuchma wants to change the constitution in order to become an all-powerful prime minister who will never face a limit on the length of his term.
Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
From here, then, all that is required to become a nuclear power are a few small technical steps and political leaders' decision to take them.
At the same time, the Palestinians become objects of romanticized identifications - one of the leaders of the NAFTHE motion was seen, prior to a meeting, draped in a Palestinian flag - and unwitting condescension.
By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.
European countries have become so interconnected that isolated national measures on issues like financial-market regulation are hopeless.
Will we want to take them if they ever become available?
In Ireland, last autumn's financial crisis provoked a turnaround in public opinion about the EU, and even in Iceland, although it lies on the periphery of our continent, membership of the EU and the euro have become a priority.
They have also become disobedient.