Word: blankings
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...more than a lack of morals, as claimed by critics, it is the declining number of decent-wage jobs and an increasingly inequitable distribution of wealth that account for the pervasiveness, persistence and growth of poverty. "For the first time," says Northwestern University's Rebecca Blank, one of the nation's leading poverty economists, "decreases in poverty no longer accompany economic growth. This is because the median family income, which registered almost no growth in the 1970s and 1980s, is now actually declining. The welfare rolls are not increasing because of generous benefits or because single mothers are working less...
Profoundly innocent? Simply stupid? Forrest Gump was 1994's premier blank slate...
Moreover, Henrickson's tale has had some discrepancies. In his first interview with TIME, Henrickson recalled that the envelopes "always had Clinton's name on them and no return address." After meeting with Smaltz, he now says the envelopes were "always blank." Similarly, Henrickson initially could recall only two or three deliveries. After meeting with Smaltz, he now remembers six deliveries from 1982 until as late as 1991. Henrickson's wife Mary Ann insists that her husband discussed the deliveries with her as they occurred. "The envelopes bothered me at the time," she recalls. "I would...
...just like when you're a little kid and you have crayons and a blank page," says left C. Tarr '96, co-president of Digitas, a student group dedicated to emerging technologies. "Now you have a text editor and an empty screen to work with...
...into the second, when freshman Doug Sproule rebounded senior Steve Martins' one-time shot from the point past a befuddled Cavicchi. But that's all that would get by Cavicchi, as the netminder made the few saves when he had to, including one on junior Kirk Nielsen from point-blank range midway through the third...