Word: enjoyable
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...answer is that under the right circumstances, the trade can be made quite easily. Human beings, for the most part, are not idealogues. What they generally want is to be able to enjoy family, comfort, safety and good health. Though it would be comforting to explain the departure of the 50 Soviets by suggesting that their Soviet upbringing didn't foster the lust for freedom possessed by native-born Americans, the truth is more troubling. For vast numbers of people the government is a trivial, background feature in the daily struggle to attain happiness and security...
...paradoxes abound throughout the subject of surrogacy, a notion that speaks to the parental instinct and offends it in the same stroke. So that a father can enjoy a blood relation to his child, the surrogate mother is persuaded to treat the same bond as negotiable. For all the complexities, however, surrogacy is one of the simplest and most venerable of the new conception options. Even the Bible offers a parallel (in the Book of Genesis, naturally). When his wife proved unable to conceive, Abraham impregnated her handmaiden Hagar, who bore Ishmael. There were hard feelings in the aftermath...
...mother, a maid, and his father, a gardener, had raised their family in San Jose, California. Though they had never visited the East Coast before June of 1968, their son's cabled orders kept them from relaxing enough to enjoy the trip...
...even more politically explosive topic is farm aid. U.S. farmers, who are still mired in a deep depression, enjoy perennial clout on Capitol Hill, but Reagan wants to cut the farm budget by several billion during the next five years. The Administration seeks to cut target farm prices, which determine the size of subsidies, by 10% a year. It would also like to toughen up the rules on maximum payments to ensure that the bulk of the aid goes to farmers who need it most. Says OMB Chief Miller, alluding to the movie Country: "A lot of money goes...
Nakasone's proposal was welcomed by U.S. officials, who have long pressured Japan to spend more on defense and rely less on American protection. At home, Japanese opposition parties vowed to fight the increase. But given the 305- seat majority that Nakasone's Liberal Democrats enjoy in the 512-seat House of Representatives, the defense proposal is certain to be approved...