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ATTITUDES TOWARD AGING. Americans, says Butler, take an unhealthy and often unrealistic attitude toward aging, assuming that old people have no further contributions to make to society and should be excluded from it. Many of the elderly share this view, occasionally attempting to conceal evidence of their advancing years and withdrawing from an active life. Butler and others believe that attitudes must change if the aged are ever to be treated fairly in the U.S. They urge society to recognize the basic rights of old people to independence and security. Gerontologists also urge society to make better...
...eloquent. In any case, I think it's the function of an educator to let people judge for themselves. I don't think you can pre-fabricate a judgment. It will be damaging to your point of view. On the other hand, I don't think one should ever conceal one's opinion. One should try to be honest, but not be a stifling propagandist...
...open press conference in the book-lined library of the Palacio de la RevoluciÓn. At times he spoke so softly as to be barely audible, but his message was clear: Cuba is prepared to move immediately toward normalization of relations with the U.S. Nonetheless, he could not conceal his disappointment that Washington had not responded to his signing of the hijacking agreement with 'a reciprocal gesture' of its own. 'We wish friendship,' he declared with obvious sincerity. 'We belong to two different worlds, but we are neighbors. One way or another...
Despite his unusually low-keyed manner, Portuguese Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves could not conceal his anxiety about the troubled days his country faces. In a wide-ranging press conference last week in Lisbon, the intense, hard-driven Premier 1) announced a plan to make the Armed Forces Movement and its 28-member Revolutionary Council a formal part of the government for up to five years; 2) pledged that Lisbon would continue its commitment to NATO, although he added that the Lajes airbase in the Azores could not be used to resupply Israel in the event...
...sells in the U.S., mostly under the "Chiquita" trademark. The company's statement said that Black had authorized the bribe and another of equal size that was to have been paid later. The payments were made by foreign subsidiaries of United Brands, whose books had been falsified to conceal the transactions. United Brands maintained that it had disclosed this information voluntarily to the SEC shortly after Black's suicide...