Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...registrants are willing to openly defy the law, they should also be willing to pay the added cost of taking outside loans or jobs to replace the federal funding they have denied themselves. It is they alone who have broken the law, and they alone who ought to bear the full financial burden of their non-registration. Thomas Rozinski
Cautious and reserved as she may be, the wife of Harvard's president and the daughter of two Noble Prize winners is an important voice in modern moral philosophy. Lying, published in 1978, received praise for bringing centuries of philosophy to bear on the practical problems of truthfulness and deception in modern life. And the work which she, her colleague Danie Callahan, and others have done at New York's Hasting Center, Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences has led the way in trying to solve increasingly urgent problems of medical and professional ethics in the modern world...
...school of his choice, but when the same thing happens on the elementary school level, word doesn't travel quite so fast. Some private high schools and junior high schools screen applicants with the Secondary School Aptitude Test (SSAT) or the Educational Records Bureau (ERB), both of these bear enough resemblance to the rest of the standardized-test corpus for Stanley Kaplan to start prepping eleven year-olds for them on a regular basis. The most trustful ground for testing pre-high-schoolers and young children, however, has been the one which lends itself most easily to misuse and misinterpretation...
...successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng can reveal the psyche of the Chinese people to the West, for though he brings a certain skepticism to bear on China's politics, he remains an accepted member of Chinese society...
...Detling Secret, a novel molded into the shape of the classic whodunit. The setting is England, the time the 1890s. Sir Arthur Detling is a crusty old Tory, holder of "one of the most ancient baronetcies in the land." Among the burdens Sir Arthur must bear is his older daughter Dolly's determination to marry Bernard Ross, a Liberal M.P. with a mysterious past: although born in England, he spent part of his childhood in the U.S. Sir Arthur disapproves of his new son-in-law and of Parliament, which he calls "the talking shop." He is further nettled...