Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard student, a great deal in this novel is familiar. Ladd captures the essence of the self-absorbed groping college life in key passages such as: "The apartment that we called 'home' was a place to store books and papers, share an occasional meal, play chess, scan the newspapers, watch television, make love in haste and detachment, then fitfully fall asleep." This idea of college as a place to rest while stuck in transit between childhood and adulthood certainly strikes a strong cord among students...
...Clinton come out with the unequivocal statement that Americans need to hear. If you believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, and if you play by the rules, then you are a part of the American family. Ourcountry has more pressing problems to deal with than worrying whether homosexuals will win a fictitious kulturkampf invented by thereligious right...
Thelma, the strong matriarch, has had to deal with a severe mother-in-law, a cheating husband, sterility, medicine men and more. Each step in her growth is treated like a gigantic leap of mankind, then is pushed aside for yet another revelation. After a few years of childless marriage, for example, Thelma's mother-in-law becomes concerned and takes action, asking "the old man to come." After that summoning, there is a break in the text, as if an earth-shattering meeting, or story-changing event is about to take place. The next paragraph contains a description...
Emotionally intelligent people are best equipped to deal with setbacks, Goleman said, because they can interact with co-workers and formulate manageable goals...
...Since other African-Americans had been marshals individually before, it wasn't seen as that big of a deal," said Stewart, now a corporate lawyer in New York City. "I was involved in student government, and Fiona was a singer; so a lot of people knew...