Word: department
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...felt just plain left out Your article on the midlife transformation of women was wonderful [Aug. 22]. Female baby boomers are pioneers in innovatively facing a new stage of life. Just as teenagers break away from childhood to begin preparing for adulthood, women (and men) in midlife must depart from traditional adulthood and grow in a different dimension. Like teenagers, we have the opportunity to dream: to imagine different scenarios for the future, to go to school, live in a new city, take a trip. But we need to close the gender gap. No longer separated by unique family roles...
...oppose Abbas, claim it was their long war in Gaza that pushed out the Israelis, and want payback in the form of a big chunk of the 25 square miles of settlement land that will come under Palestinian control when the last Israeli soldiers leave (they're scheduled to depart in six weeks). Hamas wants to build low-income housing on the land to bolster popular support in advance of parliamentary elections set for January. Its leaders are casting Hamas as a national, rather than a purely Islamic, party that can beat Abbas' corrupt and unpopular Fatah party...
After that one-minute reading, the superintendent will probably depart without any discussion, and a lesson in evolutionary biology will begin...
...civilian alerted an officer to a “suspicious person” in the parking lot at 18 Sumner Road. The officer located the person, and allowed him to depart without incident...
...could be tolerated as long as they supported U.S. interests; besides, by their nature they were more susceptible to change than totalitarian governments, as Haiti and the Philippines were to prove. But last week the Administration sought to clarify its views on dictatorships and in the process seemed to depart, albeit slightly, from the Kirkpatrick doctrine. "The American people believe in human rights," said Reagan in a message to Congress, "and oppose tyranny in whatever form, whether of the left or the right...