Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heaven, and India's high child-mortality rate makes it imprudent for a father to consider sterilization until his children are twelve or older. More important, many Indian children start farm chores and even heavy labor at an early age, are regarded by their parents as an economic asset, not a liability...
Unveiling a Woman. On other such coups, notably a Scribner's Magazine article that goaded the U.S. Treasury Department into breaking up a Government-bond racket that S. F. Porter exposed, Sylvia showed such flair that the Post ultimately decided her sex had become an asset. "I believe very definitely that the time has come for us to make capital of the fact that S. F. Porter is a woman," wrote T. O. Thackrey, then editor of the Post, in a 1942 memo to the staff. The public unveiling-a full byline accompanied by a winsome half-column photograph...
...mellifluous voice is the chief asset of Richard Conrad, who plays Frederick. He also displays a slightly satirical and detached attitude toward the script, shared to a lessor extent by the rest of the company, and far preferable to the D'Oyly Carte embalming job. Occasionally he lapsed into honeyed blandness, but he usually kept his acting good enough to let his singing make him a first-rate performer...
...tossups, he also lost Kentucky and Tennessee. But, despite the win of an independent electors' ticket in Mississippi, he handily carried Texas and South Carolina, which had been predicted for Nixon. During the campaign, many observers had thought-and said-that Republican Henry Cabot Lodge was a positive asset to his ticket while Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson was a drag on his. Nixon repeatedly stressed Lodge's presence; Kennedy often acted as though he had never heard of Johnson. Yet in the final votes there were few signs that Lodge had helped the Republicans in any specific...
...surely considerations to a degree. I can't say that I was an introvert before the experience nor really an after it. It surely did do much, however, in getting out of my own individual world into the wide, wide of many delightful people. This has been an asset incalculable value and pleasure to me. Since I felt I never achieve this because of my lack of athletic confidence the opportunity of the Managership was invaluable...