Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When they had the heat on, I couldn't bear it," said the goalie for the Buffalo Sabres. "It got so hot, I just wanted to take off all my equipment right in the middle of the game. Thank goodness the heat's off for the enjoyment of future generations...
That John Fedders should be paid for beating his wife is not just painfully ironic. Maryland's court system has lent support to the revolting notion that women bear responsibility for violence done to them...
...women who are taught that marriage is forever, who feel guilty when they are beated and think it's their fault because this doesn't happen to good people or rich people or successful people." Battered wives with low self-esteem who are given the impression that they bear some responsibility for their own beatings are not likely to file charges or leave their husbands. And then wife-beating will remain one of the most common unreported crimes...
Though seasoned investors vowed to wait out the market, many newcomers who had never heard a bear market growl found the sound just too menacing. During the last two weeks of October, shareholders drained a total of $13 billion out of stock mutual funds. Of that, $9 billion flowed into money-market funds, which hold Government securities, bank certificates of deposit and other sturdy investments. At Franklin Resources in San Mateo, Calif., redemptions in October reached $550 million, a level more than three times as high as in a typical month. "It was a stampede," said Monte Gordon, director...
This equalizing effect occurs because television most rewards not words or achievements but coronas of personality. Ted Koppel often seems more knowledgeable than the experts he questions, and George Will triumphantly bolder than Cabinet members who, unlike him, must bear policy responsibility for what they say. It took another corona of personality, Ronald Reagan, to reduce the dominance of the Washington scene by television journalists. He did it, this experienced actor, by disdaining the press and carefully controlling his public appearances. And he did it negatively by subjecting reporters to the humiliation of shouting questions over the helicopter's roar...