Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professional couples, who must work long hours or travel, often find that such live-in arrangements are the only practical solution, though the cost can exceed $300 a week. However, most live-in sitters in the U.S., unlike the licensed nannies of Britain, have no formal training. Many speak English poorly, and agencies frequently do a cursory job of screening them. A Dallas mother who asked an attorney friend to run a check on her newly hired nanny was told the woman was wanted for writing bad checks. "People need a license to cut your hair but not to care...
...modern history of this debate began nearly 40 years ago with the work of ^ English Psychiatrist John Bowlby, who reported on orphans raised in British institutions following World War II. These infants received minimal care: adequate food, a warm place to sleep, and clean diapers. However, the battery of nurses who looked after them rarely held or cuddled them. To Bowlby's horror, he found that the babies completely lost interest in life. They stopped eating, playing or even looking up from their cribs. The report, published in 1951, was interpreted as a stern warning that mothers should raise their...
...ruling had its obscure origins in a 1978 flood that leveled the Lutherglen retreat and recreational center along the Mill Creek in California's Angeles Crest National Forest. To prevent possible future disasters, Los Angeles County banned all reconstruction in the area. The center's owner, the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale, took exception to the safety measure. Claiming that the county's action violated the Fifth Amendment, the church sued for compensatory damages. Almost eight years after that suit was initiated, the high bench, by a 6-to-3 vote, ruled in favor of the church...
Casting Capone was potentially explosive as well. De Niro, the first choice, deferred accepting the role for so long that English Actor Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa) was hired. Then De Niro said yes, and the studio fired Hoskins and ate his $200,000 salary. De Niro's scenes were to be filmed at the end of the twelve-week shoot. "I met him when we were in the final stages of rehearsals," Linson says. "He was thin. He looked about 15, 20 years too young to play Capone. He had a ponytail. I panicked. We'd fired Bob Hoskins...
...magazine rack in the waiting room of Dr. Carolina Goldstein's dental surgery on Agua Caliente Boulevard in Tijuana is stuffed with copies of Good Housekeeping and other U.S. publications. THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING says a notice in English. Nearby, stacked pamphlets, also in English, extol the virtues of resin-bonded ceramic fillings. Soft music from a San Diego radio station fills the room. It could easily be an American dentist's office. Indeed, in some ways that is exactly what it is. Like many other dentists, doctors, opticians and pharmacists in Tijuana, Goldstein relies on Americans, several coming...