Word: decentering
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...child does not live in a decent house, have enough to eat, have sufficient parental support, regardless of how good the school is, he will do badly," he says...
Lima has not found a decent way of fighting Sendero. The army has taken to shooting up whole villages that are suspected of harboring Senderistas, which doesn't endear the government to anyone. "Civilian response has been to ignore it," one U.S. official told The New York Times. "The military response has been to blow everyone away...
...Ashdown grew restless with diplomatic life. According to friends, guilt about social ills back home got the better of him. In the military he had found many fellow Marines who were virtually illiterate. As he puts it, "Some were tougher, some stronger, some more intelligent, some more decent. Yet by accident of birth I was commanding them and not they me." He and his wife Jane settled in the Somerset town of Yeovil, from which Ashdown was elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1983. After the 1987 collapse of the Liberal alliance with the Social Democrats -- mainly centrist defectors...
...asked Americans to pick the dullest country in the world, most of us would pick Canada. That is a tribute to Canadians. For decades, Canada has heeded the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" and done the opposite. Given a choice between the headlines and a decent life, Canadians cede the headlines to Haiti. Americans should start thinking about their dull neighbor though, because there is an even chance that this year or the next, Canada will join the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia on the list of former countries and become two neighbors...
Oddly, Gray Grantham, the male half of Grisham's protagonist couple, is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post and, relatively speaking, one of the good guys. This is a blow; journalists like to consider themselves outcasts from decent society, and novelist Grisham is telling them that their reading on the nation's revulsion meter is insignificant. Grantham's fellow fugitive and lady love is Darby Shaw, a beautiful law student who, in the finest tradition of 19th century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam...