Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuition and fees cover only about half the actual cost of educating a Harvard undergraduate," Knowles said...
...punching and slapping as a way of settling marital disputes. On the daytime talk shows, audiences go into frenzies of outrage over batterers and any batterees who dawdle before calling the hotline. In California and Massachusetts, Governors who are feverishly cutting programs that aid women in poverty are proposing actual increases in funds to combat domestic violence. Thanks to Nicole Brown Simpson's sad fate, we tell ourselves, we're all painfully aware of the problem. So why, a rational observer might inquire, are we simultaneously hell-bent on policies that will lock millions of women into violent and abusive...
...Republican pledge to stanch the tide of frivolous lawsuits and to rein in society's litigious ways, the anecdotal evidence of the reformers' nightmares was nowhere stronger than in Barbour County. Last year juries in Alabama awarded $200 million in punitive damages, some of it in cases where actual loss was minuscule compared with the damages. "Alabama is off the charts," said George Priest, a Yale University professor of law and economics. "Lawsuits used to be about restitution. Now Jere Beasley goes into court and not only gets the money back; he gets $25 million in punitive damages. There...
...they argue cogently, would be better assured of a financially independent old age by a two-tier system. Part of it would guarantee a safety net to those who really need it. A second part, funded through mandatory private savings, would pay all Americans retirement benefits pegged to their actual contributions. But if the change is to take place, it would be better to have it before the immense claims of retiring baby boomers send the system into shock-and create a huge bloc of pensioners fiercely invested in the status quo. Also before a resentful younger generation, faced with...
...centuries, women's lives were defined by predictable routine. Reading offered an escape, but the dangers implicit in that escape were well known: unless novels were written in accordance with an unyieldingly moral ideology they could engender in their readers unsalutory desires and vicissitudes of emotion. Yet women's actual existence--their good works, the various musical and artistic talents with which they embellished themselves, their letter-writing and social calls--offered little fodder for fiction, except in the hands of an adept like Jane Austen. Instead of presenting happy alternatives to boredom, fiction by and for women often presented...