Word: calling
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...wouldn't take very much to make a valuable contribution. Sign a petition. Call or write your representatives in Congress, urging them to support ENDA, gay marriage and other progressive legislation. Most importantly, support your gay and lesbian friends and acquaintances as they struggle to make peace with themselves and this world...
Supporters of affirmative action vociferously protested the decision, call- ing it destructive to the goal of diversity...
...other hand, however, maybe most people have the ability to "earn" what we call a position of "merit," but simply lack the tools to do so. Perhaps they are not so fortunate as the average Harvard student--or the average American college student. Perhaps they did not have a mom or dad who would cheer them on at basketball games. Perhaps they did not have the money to pay for an SAT preparation course. Perhaps they did not think it was even necessary to prepare...
...given weekend, stylish young shoppers slither past one another to get at a collection of near-sheer pastel sweaters, lacy skirts, candy-colored coats and dusty blue slip dresses, coquettish clothes (most by little known designers) meant to let any suitor know that the woman in them doesn't call first and never goes dutch...
ROGER SHORT Geneticist wants mice to produce human sperm. Makes "Are you a man or a mouse?" a hard call...