Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this light, Ronald Reagan must be suffering terribly under the burden of his newfound image as "the next Richard Nixon." Apart from the fact that Reagan prefers more sympathetic roles, Watergate had the sort of genremaking freshness and glacial-paced unravelling of mystery, intrigue and sliminess that ensured it a unique place in the archives of presidential misadventure...
...midair capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers as they were being flown out of Egypt, and organized the U.S. Navy's first strike against Libya's radar installations last March. The agency's record of accomplishment allowed more than one of its members to consider himself a breed apart. Said one in early November: "We're the only ones who can make things happen...
Duke has owns an advantage in the experience department. Apart from having 11 seniors on their squad, six of whom play regularly, the Blue Devils have played in the NCAA tournament in five of the previous six years...
...monthly income of $572, or $286 each for the mother and child. They would also receive comprehensive medical coverage. Percy Steel, president of the Urban League chapter in Oakland, says of an unemployed father: "If he has feelings for his family, he gets lost. Welfare is tearing these families apart...
...their part," she says, "I don't think they should be coming around." For a while, Williams lived in a private shelter run by a group called Parents of Watts. Alice Harris, a woman known for her ready smile and generosity, runs the program. "Of course welfare is breaking apart families," Harris says. President Reagan's task force on the American family made a similar contention two weeks ago: "Easy availability of welfare in all of its forms has become a powerful force for the destruction of family life through perpetuation of the welfare culture...