Word: copely
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...want to ensure that Indian people will survive as Indian people. The services here (at BIC) aren't designed to turn Indians into whites. They're meant to teach Indians how to cope with white culture and be Indian at the same time...
...governor says "education is a top priority," that adequate education is the only way his people will cope with the white world. "We don't like them to coop [live] on the reservation," he says, "but we like them to learn and teach the people on the reservation here the things they have learned...
...hiring more fire marshals. Largely under pressure from community leaders in Brooklyn, Mayor Abraham Beame recently authorized the New York City Fire Department to increase its force of investigators from 77 to 152-but that is still barely half the number of marshals experts believe New York needs to cope with its arson problem...
...pleasure a Cadillac or a $400 three-piece suit bestows on its owner is inextricably tied to status. Status and its effect on individuals and societies is not something the tools of traditional economics can easily cope with...
Menuhin is more reticent about the private events of an adulthood spend in the public eye. He writes cryptically, and with ovbious pain, of his hasty first marriage and subsequent divorce ("Each of us had married an illusion...There was nothing in my past to teach me how to cope with failure"). He speaks warmly, and with a tinge of regret, of his four living children (a fifth died at birth)--"as a father I have probably spend less time with my children than any man not sentenced to life imprisonment." And no amount of reserve can hide his delight...