Word: conned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spend a buck to save six. It sounds like a con man's come-on. In fact, it is a measure of Head Start's success. Studies show that for every dollar spent on a disadvantaged Head Start child, the nation saves six dollars it would otherwise shell out later in the form of additional health, welfare and crime- control expenditures...
Though the Japanese constitution guarantees freedom of speech, the taboo against criticizing the royal family is almost never violated. Said Naoo Harada, who published a collection of pro and con letters written to the mayor after his remark: "I'm fearful that this incident could force out freedom of speech again...
...none of that, pro or con, has a thing to do with theories of creation, or the origin of life on earth. In a sense, we are all creationists. We differ ! only on the specifics. The idea of linear time is so embedded in our consciousness that we instinctively believe there must have been a beginning, a creation, a genesis. But on what impulse, whose design? That we can never know...