Word: central
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THROUGHOUT the extended Congressional debate on the two alternate tuition aid bills, legislators have lost sight of the central issue--aid to middle-income families struggling to put children through college. Tuition tax credit proposals, which call for a $250 tax credit to all families regardless of their need for such assistance, are clearly not the answer to this dilemma...
...That central fact is the child. "You are always conscious of the child," Susanna said. "I brought her to one class when I just had no other option. And even though she was made to feel very welcome, the entire time I had to worry abut whether she was going to fall down the stairs or bite somebody. And it's like I can't function. Even if people are optimally nice, there is still nothing...
...have been used to seeing just a nice little mommy or nice little underachiever, and they're comfortable with that." Rodell said. "And all of a sudden you start to blossom in one way or another. That really threatened my husband." As the experience at Harvard became a central part of the women's lives, some husbands began retaliating. Marguerite's husband accused her of not being a good wife, and she remembers he "couldn't understand why I didn't want to do housework." As the rate of personal growth accelerated for all of these women, old relationships became...
Each one was a central figure during the Nixon years--Thurmond as the architect of Nixon's Southern Strategy and Helms as the leader of the rightwing charge needed to create the reactionary climate Nixon wanted...
...traces of its old insouciance. The antique shops along Rue Samsenthai, mostly owned by Vietnamese, are still open. One shopkeeper, fortunate enough to hold a French passport, said that she was preparing to leave Laos soon, since the government had announced plans to take over her store. The large central market seemed adequately stocked with fresh vegetables, soap, cigarettes, pots and pans, cotton cloth and even finely wrought silver works -all still being sold by private merchants. While virtually all women obey a government order to wear the traditional Lao skirt, called the sin, some top them with T shirts...