Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of a string of careless decisions that range from merely ill-informed to inexcusable. The net result is a Catch-22: Few students take interest in the council because the council doesn't do very much--and it doesn't do very much because nobody seems to care...
...Require the appointed people to follow-up on every action the council requests. Too often good ideas approved by the council die because the chair "forgets" to write a letter. There should be a list of requests, which is constantly updated as each is taken care of or as new requests are added. At the beginning of each meeting, ask the responsible officers what they did for the council over the past week. If they did nothing, embarass them publicly...
...wonder, should campus activists care about my digestive system? What makes me presume that "justice for lactose intolerants!" will become the rallying cry of the 1990s...
...even when adoptive parents come forward, the foster-care and adoptive system can keep the children tantalizingly out of reach. Designed to be a short-term arrangement ending in either adoption or the child's return to a competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence. Only about half of all foster children return home; many of the rest are suspended in a legal limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan...
Parents who adopt special-needs children speak of the rewards as often as the difficulties. Says Sam Borodin of Philadelphia, who with his wife has adopted three girls with Down syndrome: "They have given us joy and love back tenfold." But there are times when caring for a child with special needs can be too hard a test. In Texas a group of seven couples has brought a lawsuit against the state adoption agency, charging that they should have been told that their adopted children had been abused. As the children approached adolescence, they began to behave in a bizarre...