Word: copes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President had other matters to worry about. He had to cope with an open rebellion by the State Department, the most astonishing example yet of how deeply his Iran policy had split his own Administration. The previous % week, Shultz had won Reagan's grudging announcement that there would be no more arms sales to Iran, but the Secretary was not satisfied. Just before the NSC met, he dispatched Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead to testify at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Whitehead directly contradicted Reagan's repeated assertions that U.S. contacts with Tehran had caused Iran...
Today he is raising his kids, as well as seven of his nephews and nieces, ages 6 to 18, whose mother could no longer cope with the pressures of bringing them up. He and his mother, along with the nine children, live in a two- bedroom, $134-a-month apartment. He is off drugs. He is also off the welfare rolls, earning his living as a community organizer at Harlem's Family Life and Sex Education Program...
...State Department find it difficult to cope with the National Security Council's operational activities," he testified...
...read only the simplest signs and labels (about 1 million); a group who are often classified as functionally literate; they can read simple materials--but only at an elementary school level (about 25 million); and a group who are able to read elementary level materials, but who cannot cope with the more complex materials of an information high-tech society (about 50 million...
...Mannville School, of which Selman is the director, is part of the Judge Baker Children Center in Boston and helps disturbed kids from ages 6-16 cope by providing them with complete psychotherapeutic care, said Principal David Gilmore...