Word: control
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...Dole, who had sent another torpedo into the conventional wisdom that she is far too cautious to do or say anything bold and original. That came the night before, at a big G.O.P. wingding, when she surprised even some of her top supporters by laying out a gun-control agenda that calls for full federal funding for instant background checks, outlawing all cop-killer bullets, upholding the assault-weapons ban and mandating child-safety locks. The speech received at least one hearty boo, and when it was over, the applause was spotty. "I don't know what she was thinking...
...with any serious illness never simply to discontinue conventional therapy. "If you wanted to see me and you had cancer, you would have to have your physician send a letter seeking my input," he says. But when you're selling books by the thousands, there's no way to control desperate readers' attempts to freelance themselves a cure. "That's precisely why people like Null are so problematic," comments Barrie Cassileth, chief of the Integrative Medicine Service at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center...
Last week the PBS talk show To the Contrary broadcast results of a new study it had commissioned from a New York University economist: he claims that women now control a majority--51.3%--of U.S. household wealth. Other economists challenge the report's methodology, especially its apportioning of wealth evenly between husbands and wives. Yet even the critics believe women's influence over wealth is growing, if only because wives outlive their husbands by an average of seven years and usually inherit most of their assets...
America decided 200 years ago to keep her church and state separate, out of respect for both. But Columbine confounds the Constitution; everyone is coloring outside the lines, between what is sacred, what is secular. Ministers call on lawmakers to pass gun-control laws, lawmakers call for religious revival, and Al Gore appears on Larry King Live, not just to talk about his three-point plan to make the Internet less toxic but also to recall his days as a divinity student and cite parables and argue that Littleton is "a spiritual signal," a chance to ask questions that aren...
...Entrepreneurship is very hot. It's one of the most talked-about subjects on campus right now," says Myra Hart, who co-teaches a course at Harvard called Women Building Business. "For many women, entrepreneurship is viewed as a way to have a profession where you have some control over your life, which may or may not be true." But working for yourself, unlike landing a top corporate job, doesn't require an M.B.A. Just witness the success of Silicon Valley start-ups led by computer-science grads without a Finance 101 course to their name...