Word: entrustment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thinks. Another deranged au pair from B-picture hell, stirring up our anxieties about the relative strangers to whom, in these busy times, we are obliged to entrust our children. But Peyton, whose mannerliness is lit by lightning flashes of rage, is something more than that. She is the ultimate Other Woman. Her aim -- at least in the beginning -- is not to terrorize but to estrange Claire from her family, strip her of husband, children and middle- class comforts, drive her out as Peyton herself has been driven out, and then move in and replace...
...began black TV reporter Norman Robinson. "I've heard you say that Jews deserve to be in the ash bin of history. I've heard you say that horses contributed more to the building of America than blacks did." Robinson went on to ask why any minorities should entrust their lives to Duke -- and the moral opposition to Duke's hate- mongering past coalesced...
Defenders of the tests say they are needed for such workers as armed security guards, one of the few kinds of employees that Target subjects to the examination. "When we entrust individuals with weapons to protect the public, I think it's important to assess their emotional stability," says James Butcher, a psychology professor at the University of Minnesota who helped revise the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. An earlier version of that test provided many of the questions that were asked of Soroka. The revised version eliminates some of the inquiries about religion and sexuality...
...stake is the dwindling pool of independent scientists and doctors," Bourke says. "Shall we entrust it to Harvard's anonymous and directionless committees? The prospect is Reaganesque...