Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indicated significant hostility to legal protections for children." Suits against agencies may still be filed in some state courts, but local laws often permit little or no recourse. In Joshua's case, a Wisconsin statute limits damages to $50,000 -- less than the cost of a year's medical care for the tragically battered youngster...
...politically unpopular spending cuts, which the President seems loath to initiate. Bush's strategy of leaving the hard choices to Congress has led so far to budget gridlock. Concedes a senior Administration official: "If Congress accepts our budget, economic growth and inflation and interest rates will take care of themselves. But if the bickering drags on, the Fed is going to give us all a hard time...
...persuasive as the arguments in favor of a change may be, to some they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really care what we call ourselves. I just want us to get economic and social equality...
...paid $33.4 million for the place, which only two days earlier had been purchased by an oil company for $26.2 million. Real estate broker Byron ("Bud") Brown testified that when he was fixing the deal with MacDonald, the Navajo leader smiled and said, "I assume I'll be taken care of." Replied Brown: "Certainly...
...there's really no real reason to care about the plot of Skin Deep, and there's no reason to care about any of the film's characters, for that matter. I certainly didn't care whether or not Zach got back together with his wife--the film didn't give any insight into either character. I didn't care whether or not Zach stops drinking, or whether he ever writes another book. The only thing Skin Deep really made me care about was...where can I get some glow-in-the dark condoms...