Word: craft
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President Clinton used his emergency powers to craft an economic rescue package for Mexico intended to avert the possibility of loan defaults that could ignite financial panic throughout the hemisphere. The President thus neatly bypassed congressional opposition to his original proposal of $40 billion in loan guarantees. Despite some grumbling on Capitol Hill, the President's move received support from both the Republican and Democratic leadership (and a sigh of relief from many members happy to be freed from having to vote on a controversial aid package). For the most part, Mexican financial markets reacted favorably to the President...
President Clinton used his emergency powers to craft an economic-rescue package for Mexico intended to avert the possibility of loan defaults that could ignite financial panic throughout the hemisphere. The President thus neatly bypassed U.S. congressional opposition to his original proposal of $40 billion in loan guarantees. Despite some grumbling on Washington's Capitol Hill, the President's move received support from both the Republican and Democratic leadership (and a sigh of relief from many members happy to be freed from having to vote on a controversial aid package). For the most part, Mexican financial markets reacted favorably...
Ladybird, Ladybird opens one naked wound of the welfare dilemma. Should a loving mother be allowed to raise her children? But of course. And what if she is unable to protect them from her crippling weaknesses? Motherhood is a craft as well as a passion; it requires competence, ingenuity, common sense. ``Children need more than love,'' a welfare worker testifies at one of Maggie's humiliating hearings. ``They need support, and they need stability.'' In other words, the parent can't also be a child...
...after years of failing health but at the remarkable age of 104, she left behind five children, 28 grandchildren--and a motto as legacy to all who mourned her passing: ``I know not age, nor weariness, nor defeat.'' The boast is testament to her ability to craft legend out of the exigencies of real life. Of course, Rose Kennedy knew age and weariness and defeat. Many times over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family. With strictness, with humor, with...
Veterans are outraged at the exhibit, and we must respect their outrage. A man who feels his life was spared because of the bomb does not want to hear an upstart historian (who was not even there) analyze the moral implications of Hiroshima. But who ought to craft our memory: soldiers or historians...