Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, men almost never won custody of children in court. Today a few do. But the actual raising of a brood of children is still frightening to a man alone. McCarthy's Tuesday group has been clumsily confronting problems like how to get a fever down, how to give an enema, where to find milk at 6 in the morning, how to help sons with bed-wetting traumas and which diet is best for a teenage daughter who wants to stay svelte...
...transition from mill town to corporate center. Caliguiri is spending millions more to repair bridges, build water and sewer systems and upgrade housing in the city's older neighborhoods. Predicts the mayor: "Pittsburgh is going to be the first major city in the Northeast to see actual gains in population." (It lost 18.5% in the past decade...
...actual percentage of truly liberal trade among European countries and between them and the rest of the world has declined. After eliminating the products for which commerce is restricted, not much is left for free trade. The export or import of most agricultural products, textiles, synthetic fibers, clothing, shoes, steel and automobiles are now limited in some way. And restraints in one country beget restraints in another. No sooner had Washington pressured the Japanese into limiting the number of cars shipped to the U.S. than the Europeans, who already control their auto imports from Japan, were demanding still tougher restraints...
...main cause of overcrowding has been a spectacular rise in the prison population-from 195,000 to 320,000 nationwide in the past decade. That growth reflects both an actual increase in crimes and the fact that more than half of the states have passed minimum or mandatory sentencing laws since 1970. The new laws, enacted to placate a public demanding tough sentences, often make little distinction among crimes; for example, judges are forced to lock up shoplifters and forgers along with murderers and armed robbers. Contends Norman Carlson, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: "The knee-jerk response...
...some dinky building you can make a contribution to the field. An English or a History major has the disadvantage of trying to compete with critics and writers who know so much more than they do. In experimental science where the professor does no work at the bench, the actual contributions are made by his students. The work I do is in no way inferior to that of a graduate student or Ph.D.," Se-jin says. "It may take me longer and I may not see the interesting results as quickly," he says modestly, "but my work is just...