Equities would beat bonds in a normal world of decent growth.
It is foolish that graduate programs are pumping new Ph.D.'s into a world without decent jobs for them.
Sometimes visitors can be overwhelmed by the naked need that exists in other parts of the world, where decent food, running water and sturdy homes are luxuries.
But "his elucidation, I fear, takes flight from all the things we must do to make the world a decent place".
In parts of the world where decent manners are a given, excessive politesse is viewed as just another form of rudeness.
I believe that there is something universal in this little world, something decent to be said for it, and something to lament in its passing".
Lemmon, from the mid-1950s theough the '70s, was the embodiment of beleaguered middle-class manhood in a changing world — a decent guy who somehow had trouble catching a break, and who always looked as if he felt guilty about something.
When President John Kennedy started the Peace Corps in 1961, he hoped that it would bring other parts of the world "that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace".
For what the Bouazizis represent is something instantly familiar across the Arab world: poor, decent people from the hard-scrabble countryside outside the town – a village named Sidi Salah, where Bouazizi went to school in a one-room country classroom.
Neither is more or less natural: they are both projects for making the world more decent and humane.
A better world, a decent life".
