Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cruel Catch-22 of welfare is that it often punishes recipients who try to work their way out of poverty. By taking away benefits from the poor when their income starts to climb, welfare discourages incentive. A novel program in Washington State proposes to turn that problem on its head by offering bonuses as well as benefits to welfare recipients who work or undergo job training. In effect, Washington wants to tell the poor: Whatever you earn (up to a point), you can keep...
...just serious enough to be plausible -- Brustein actually does believe that directors have as creative a role as writers -- eventually become self-mockingly funny. But the jokes seem to go over the heads of much of the audience; instead of laughing, many spectators stare deadpan as if trying to catch up. Later sequences offer conventional, tell-me-a-story pleasures: a mother with a toothache tries to dispel it through elaborate religious ritual; a drunken father comes home and dies in a poignant scene made all the more impressive by the fact that moments before, the actor had stepped...
...tune: the 1983 ax slaying of a 72-year-old El Paso woman, Librada Apodaca. Judge Brunson Moore found his confession involuntary and | ruled Lucas had not knowingly waived his right to a lawyer. "Good treatment and perks" motivated the confession, Judge Moore concluded after his ruling. "You can catch as many flies with honey as with a fly swatter...
...Kremlin has eliminated one of the strongest deterrents to applying to leave the country: the utter finality of emigration. With that policy changing, more Soviet citizens may be eager to gamble on the West. Now, if the experience proves disappointing, the Soviet safety net may still be there to catch them...
While most Harvard students are buried in the libraries trying to write term papers or catch up on the semester's reading, the folks down at Harvard's radio station, WHRB, are having an orgy. In fact, they are having 60 orgies...