Word: desiree
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During the nearly five-month period the elected members took to deliberate over Berkowitz's complaint, both he and Nesson wrote to the Docket Committee several times, expressing their desire to appear before it.
Indeed, pot and alcohol are common forms of self-medication among depressed teens. Weller estimates that about 30% of her teen patients have used pot or alcohol after a depressive episode, most of them at the urging of friends who said smoking and drinking would make them feel better. A...
At the Daytona 500 earlier this year, the entire field tried to gang-tackle him, deliberately closing off the passing lane, so to speak. But near the end of the race, Gordon sensed his moment and pulled a spectacular stunt, diving down off a banked turn to the apron of...
We struggle, wistfully, to re-create some vanished adult faculty of judgment, remembering bits and pieces of commonplace old wisdom as we go (insights such as this: maybe kids need supervision). Robert Bly had it right: "Adults regress toward adolescence; and adolescents--seeing that--have no desire to become adults...
Sure, but here's the rub: Public service at the political level only is akin to working in the plant where accountability is very diffuse and direct contact with the beneficiaries of policies is very rare. In such settings, the driving force for progressive legislation is interest and not duty...