Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physicians from a local hospital provide comprehensive health care. Tutors recruited from the Junior League help with homework, and employment counselors place the kids in summer jobs. "Many employers have stereotypes of black urban youth," says Mary Kay Penn, who manages the Milbank program. "It is very hard to persuade them to take these kids on, even when we pay the salary." But last summer Penn placed 75 of the kids in jobs, and Carrera added a silk-screening program so they could learn to design and sell T shirts...
...choice forces -- it is not easy to mobilize to defend the status quo. Pro-choice activists have also been criticized for failing to take sufficient account of the mixed feelings that abortion can give rise to. Lately you can hear some of them framing their arguments with greater care. "Nobody likes abortion. It's a difficult choice," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). "Women don't have abortions they want. They have abortions they need...
State budgets have been severely strained by a combination of dwindling help from the debt-ridden national Government and Washington-mandated increases in spending for catastrophic health care and nursing homes. State officials also blame some unexpected consequences of the 1986 federal tax-reform law. Late in 1986 taxpayers rushed to sell securities and property before capital-gains taxes jumped from 20% to a current maximum of 33%. Some state planners rosily assumed this high revenue would continue. Cigarette smokers will pay for the miscalculation...
...legal problems over record deals. Her subsequent releases turned unfocused, uncertain. And there were personal tragedies. Snow's daughter Valerie was born with brain damage in 1975. Music was no longer so much a refuge and release; it became just another component of a great struggle. Snow resolved to care for her daughter at home, but then almost died herself a few years back from a sickness she declines to specify. She now supports herself and Valerie mostly by singing advertising jingles...
...Maybe [the scholarship] is the government's way of saying thank you, of saying, 'yeah, we know you care,'" Hughes said...