Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conundrum of the workfare debate -- Should single mothers with small children have to work? -- has a yes-and-no answer: yes, but not unless reliable day care is provided. Massachusetts' ET program and the Moynihan bill place great emphasis on day care. But this must be accompanied by a commitment on the part of the states and the private sector to help finance it. Single mothers receiving benefits could work in day-care centers, constituting an immediately available employment pool...
...about.' Time is very short, but there is some time." Last week, juiced up by his favorable debate reviews, Dukakis waged class warfare with more gusto than he usually displays. He belabored Bush repeatedly for ignoring the concerns of ordinary families as they try to educate their young, care for their sick and provide for their own retirement. Dukakis depicted his opponent as a "Santa Claus to the rich and Ebenezer Scrooge to the rest...
...past eight years (they've been married for only a year), Paul has driven a delivery truck for a private mail company. He has worked his way up to $8.25 an hour. Paul too lived at home until last year. Though Silva works part time at a day-care center, they are struggling with their monthly payments of $600 in rent and $169 in credit-union debt. "When we pay everything off," says Paul, "we barely have anything left...
...lanky tenor named Franklin Spears, swigging a can of Lone Star, lends his insight. "The nice thing about barbershopping," he confides, "is you don't know what the guy singing next to you does for a living, and you don't care." Spears happens to be a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and he gloats, "I've been here three days, and I haven't talked about a case...
...shouldn't we join the Soviets in their great adventure, as they have continually beseeched us? As humans we shouldn't care who makes the big discovery or what language it is reported in. But as humans we should like to see a thing done as well as possible, and it is still our turn to lead, to help invest in the new mythology. The American space program has become a kind of monument that we have bequeathed to future generations and the other peoples of our planet. It is a homage to humility and hope, a promise, like great...