Word: difficult
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...parenting psychologist for more than 20 years, I am struck by how often parents are overcontrolling until their child hits adolescence. As soon as said child shows signs of rebellion, many parents abdicate all control because the fight becomes too difficult. Teens are now let loose to drink, smoke and experiment sexually with little guidance. Since they were not taught to develop internal controls, they have great difficulty with impulse control. Really, being a little less controlling when your children are young and a little more so when they are older is a much better formula...
...It’s difficult because you’re writing about a slave owner and an enslaved woman. There is the difficulty of pulling together the lives of people who don’t have lots of letters,” she said...
Although G.M. has not provided details on its search for a new chief executive, Bower said that the company would most likely look for an outsider who “would do things that were just too difficult for Henderson [as an insider...
...bracing sense of unity that Obama cited in his peroration was achieved reflexively - it was the obvious human reaction after the Sept. 11 attacks. But such unity is difficult to sustain. And it cannot be reignited by mere words or argument, even when the argument and the policy is, I believe, the correct one. The exquisite rationality that attends almost everything this President does is essential, but not enough, when sending young men and women into battle. There needs to be inspiration as well. There is no such thing as a no-drama...
...allies like Brazil and Chile. It was the kind of dismissive display that Bush was best known for in Latin America - and a gift to the anti-U.S. Latin left, whose leader, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, is galvanizing his political base at home in a difficult economy by hollering about an imminent U.S. invasion...