Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with one of them, Nancy. At 5:30 Nancy got up and our day began. At the time, their father was a miner and their mother a homemaker. By my next visit, three months later, Mr. Nelson had been laid off from his job and was taking care of the kids, while Mrs. Nelson had entered the job force for the first time in her life...
July 1988: outside her home in Albany, just three blocks from Governor Mario Cuomo's mansion, Child-Care Worker Haziine Eytina is arrested by FBI agents. Her real identity, authorities say, is Linda Grinage, 39. She is charged with air piracy, an offense that carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. After receiving an anonymous tip in 1987 that Eytina was the fugitive skyjacker, authorities spent a year piecing together bits of evidence and | comparing Grinage's handwriting samples with welfare applications that Eytina had filled out in Albany. Grinage and her husband evidently returned...
...bright side: "You'll get all the best parking spaces." But for Allan, this is a life near death. His mother (Joyce Van Patten) cloys and crushes. His girlfriend runs off with the surgeon who may have botched his operation. His nurse, a sulky sadist named Maryanne (Christine Forrest), cares more for her parakeet than for her patient. And Allan's best friend (John Pankow) is a mad scientist of the cybernetic age, Cuisinarting the genes of capuchin monkeys. One of these -- she's called Ella -- is placed in the care of the comely Melanie (Kate McNeil), who trains simians...
...nuts and bolts of governing aren't of interest to the electorate. Most of them don't know who the contras are, and even fewer care whether Congress votes to support them. Statistics show that most often the candidate who presents the most optimistic speech at his party's convention wins in November. The lesson is clear if disheartening: Smile a lot and hire good speechwriters...
...whole life's work, and I obviously care very deeply about this issue," she says. She downplays her work, however, saying that it was the "certain emotional attachment that parents have" that caused her to first become involved in disability issues. She adds that witnessing "the unlocking of potential in people" is awe-inspiring...