Word: entrusting
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Given that more families have both parents of young children working than ever before, dependency on the child care system has become nearly ubiquitous. There are very few parents who do not, for some portion of the day, entrust their children to the care of strangers. For many Americans, this is not a choice: both parents have to work in order to pay the bills or keep the family out of poverty. Nonetheless, there is a lingering guilt that if women were good mothers, they wouldn't have to worry about child care at all. It is easy for that...
...like many of my classmates here, I deferred life for a bit, postponing the usual adolescent sagas until there was something or someone really worth my love and my pain. It wasn't until I came to Harvard that people finally bothered to lie to me, or bothered to entrust me with their private truths-to tell me anything that mattered to them, in fact. It wasn't until I came to Harvard that I began caring about people enough to hate them-or to love them...
...generation, in her first TV movie in 20 years. In the recent Marvin's Room, Streep played the selfish mother of a troubled child. But ...first do no harm" is better--less because of its heroine than because of its collective villain: the doctors to whom we entrust our lives...
...different tune when addressing the rest of the country, the voters must take note of the disparity. When President Clinton makes campaign promises and compassionately talks about issues without making actual substantial efforts to adopt and implement his promises, we must take notice and call his bluff. If we entrust the executive branch to an individual simply because he belongs to our party and because we feel that he will be our friend, who knows how best to run the country, then, in these momentous times, I shall pray the old Spanish proverb, "God save me from my friends...
...highest level, when we progress from dictatorship or oligarchy to the type of democratic government that we entrust to safeguard our lives and liberty, honesty becomes absolutely essential. The very definition of a democracy is a society in which the government is given a mandate by the people to serve the people...