Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abandoned babies were far less painful to contemplate before the crack and AIDS epidemics, back when they came swaddled in baskets with heartbreaking notes, in the thousands rather than in the tens of thousands. Now they are a shared social nightmare, the blame for which may depend on the political philosophy of the beholder. Conservatives might find it hard to imagine a purer shirking of personal responsibility than the mother who throws her child, at birth, upon the charity of the state; liberals may decry the forces that drive poor, addicted and HIV-positive women into this most wrenching...
...current situation is not all roses. "Sometimes I want to pull my hair out," she says. "Housing is really difficult for us. But I wouldn't change nothing. I've never felt this kind of love before. I have a life ahead of me and four beautiful girls who depend...
...important to explain the values underlying legislation, for our collective goals depend on our behavior as individuals. When Clinton spoke about welfare reform last month, he discussed the importance of the stable two-parent family. Though some snickered at the President's apparent hypocrisy, Clinton's statements were justified. For people caught in the cultural and economic web of poverty, our public policies need to promote the kinds of behavior that will allow them to pull themselves out. Clinton was brave to talk about the values underlying his recent welfare reform legislation not only because of his own imperfections...
...tanks and plenty of spacewalking experience, the astronauts realize that the tiniest unforeseen problem could turn their effort into a disaster. A stripped bolt, a slightly misaligned part, a slip on the part of the fix-it crew could disable the telescope completely, leaving NASA and the scientists who depend on the Hubble worse off than before...
...present law Charles and Diana would have to remain separated for another year before they could divorce -- but the government could probably massage the laws if it chose. Gossip meister Nigel Dempster reported last month that Prince Charles had promised to marry his paramour, Camilla Parker- Bowles -- which would depend not only on the Prince's being free but also on Camilla's divorcing her Catholic husband. At the same time, Dempster also suggested that Diana was still hoping for a reconciliation with the man who, in one secretly recorded exchange, expressed his wish to be reincarnated as his lover...