Word: breaking
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Members of the Cincinnati Homicide Department said that objects were missing from Strauss' apartment after the break-in. They said that they have not determined the identity of the murderer but added that an investigation is underway...
...final paradox of the current welfare system is what he terms the assistance-family structure conundrum. Much has been written about the break-up of the American family in the ghetto, and Ellwood argues that one of the structural problems inherent in the welfare system is that it may provide incentives for the dissolution of the nuclear family. Yet Ellwood in Poor Support is a sensitive critic, and he dismisses most of the conservative rhetoric about women "marrying" the welfare system instead of husbands...
...pedals twelve miles to work and back every day. "I can do more vigorous exercise without things beginning to hurt." Unlike the hunchback racers of old, this year's hottest models are more comfortable and more durable than earlier ones. "It's really hard for a good bike to break down these days," says Chuck McCullagh, publisher and editor of Bicycling magazine. "People can go out and get fit and not have to worry about the damn thing...
Critics promptly blasted the report for failing to break any new ground and complained that it did not address the need for nutrition education programs or tough regulations governing food labeling. Still, the document was welcomed as reinforcement for a host of warnings and advisories issued earlier by federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture and the National Cancer Institute, and such organizations as the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society...
Katie is looking forward to this summer's break from day care. But she already misses her classmates, and in a way she misses her school too. For inside Montlake something exciting is happening. Over the past three years, LaVaun Dennett, Montlake's principal, reorganized the school schedule so that the average class size could be reduced from 28 to 20 without adding a single faculty member. More time is now spent on reading and math, which kids do according to ability, not grade. Katie's skills in these subjects are far beyond the third-grade level, so she takes...