Re: Here are the topics!!!

[Alan Dove <ad52@columbia.edu>]

On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Gary Larson wrote:

> 1.  Resolved:  The United States Federal Government 
> should substantially change its trade and/or aid policies to promote 
> human rights reforms in one or more of the following Southeast Asian
> nations: Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, 
> Malaysia, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.

For all of the topics that list the nations specifically, there is no need
to include the adjective "Southeast Asian."  There is no Latin American
nation called Laos, for example. 

I strongly prefer "ASEAN member nations," since it accomplishes the same
thing with a lot less verbiage.  It's a minor gripe in this case, since
the net effect is the same in terms of the ground, direction, and size of
the topics.

I suppose there's nothing we can do at this point about the vague
"substantially change" and "substantially increase/decrease" term.

          --Alan

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References:

• Here are the topics!!!
• From: "Gary Larson" <Gary.N.Larson@wheaton.edu>

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