Word: bray
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Kathleen A. Bray, director of Yard Operations, three maintenance teams--composed of carpenters, painters and shades repairers--tackle a "laundry list" of problems throughout the Yard residence halls...
...doesn't prevent the stepmother from taking on substantial maternal responsibilities. "Because of the way they've been socialized, and because of social expectations, typically women have more pressure put on them in stepfamilies to parent and to take care of the kids," says James Bray, a clinical psychologist who did a nine-year study of stepfamilies that was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Meanwhile, the first wife may be antagonistic toward her successor. These factors place a heavy burden on the new family. About 55% of second marriages fail, partly because of these issues...
...talking, a man and a woman appear and stop to talk shop loudly no more than 3 ft. from where we are sitting. Though it has to be clear that McDonough and I are in quiet conversation, they bray at each other for several minutes as if we do not exist. To me their behavior is simply a moment of normal human rudeness, though it is a little jarring in a building that is supposed to foster collegial bliss. I suggest to McDonough that civility is something that cannot be designed, and he starts to agree. Then he stops, grows...
...Bray said violations in first-year dorms are handled in a similar manner, with violations referred to assistant deans...
...look for things," Bray said. "We have 1660 rooms to inspect, and we're not going to spend all winter looking...