Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Bert Lance made a long-scheduled appearance at the Southern Governors Conference in San Antonio last week, it was inevitable that someone would ask him the question: Was he going to resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget? With the aw-shucks, bear-like amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island...
...five stages. First comes the heat of protest, and then the more reflective search for personal identity. This is followed by an exploration of culture, a refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...
...looting is undoubtedly a symptom of some serious problems in our society. First, this kind of behavior reveals a failure of the family, the church and the schools to instill basic moral standards among a sizable part of the population. I feel that the schools bear a special responsibility in the inner city...
...expunge, U.S.-Soviet relations are at their lowest point in years. The SALT stalemate results, in part, from military advances, such as America's development of the cruise missile and the Soviets' deployment of the Backfire bomber and SS-18 monster-size rockets. But the Carter Administration may bear some blame for the impasse because it badly miscalculated the response that both its human rights campaign and its sweeping arms-reduction proposals last March would trigger from the Russians. The Administration, says Veteran Kremlin-watcher George Kennan, "made just about every mistake it could make in these Moscow talks...
Another example of the conflict, in a variety of mammals, is weaning. When the benefit to the child begins to be outweighed by the cost to the mother (reduced ability to bear or care for other offspring), the mother will deny milk, though the offspring will continue to demand more. But parents have an edge. (Says Trivers: "An offspring cannot fling its mother to the ground at will and nurse.") So evolution has provided a defensive weapon for the offspring: psychological warfare. Some fledgling birds will scream with hunger?even when they are reasonably well fed?to induce the parent...