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...Bush order does not carry much throw weight. While the White House declares it will affect as many as 3 million workers, the AFL-CIO claims it will involve fewer than 1 million. And though it will not greatly diminish the potency of union political activities, it does send a message. Asked if he was engaging in union busting, Bush responded with a straight face, "We enforce individual rights." Bush, countered AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, "has given hypocrisy a bad name...
Expressing culture is supposed to celebrate differences, not try to diminish them...
...added success for Le Pen's mean and narrow nationalism would be bound to diminish further France's influence as one of the five countries with veto power on the United Nations Security Council and as a leader in integration of the European Community. And whatever happens to Le Pen, that influence is already threatened by the prospect of a period during which the country is increasingly absorbed in internal wrangling...
...argues that special attention must be paid to two crucial stages of development: prenatal and early childhood, and early adolescence. Brain damage to the fetus through malnutrition or drug abuse can diminish intellectual ability. And failure to form a secure attachment to an adult in the first two years of life can hamper a child's learning as well as emotional growth. To forestall such damage, Hamburg asserts, women must have access to prenatal care, drug-treatment programs and nutrition counseling. It also helps to assign parental mentors to new mothers (and fathers), and to consolidate social and health services...
...spite of her dimness--or perhaps because of it--Griffith renders a convincing performance as a perspicacious woman whose intelligence is often masked by a ditzy facade. Her work lends a great deal of warmth and humor to the film, which nonetheless does not diminish the impact of the appalling reality of Hitler's regime...