Word: entrustments
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...weeks, the American people will entrust either George Bush or Michael Dukakis with the keys to the nuclear kingdom. The presidency carries with it a moral responsibility that ought to humble even the most self-confident leader. Yet how do the candidates spend these final weeks, as they seek to shoulder this awesome responsibility? By reverting to a childlike state of dependency, with their every movement, gesture, word and response dictated by political handlers and chaperones. At the very moment the voters are asked to place their future in the hands of one of these men, the campaign staffs...
...matter of war and peace, voters are especially entitled to feel that leaders have lived their beliefs. War has always been a matter of old men sending young men off to die. Sometimes that's necessary. But who wants to entrust that crucial decision to a person who, when young, apparently thought it was necessary for others to go but not for himself...
Students of money management are rarely allowed to practice with other people's nest eggs. But Ohio State University has decided to entrust students in Finance 723, Advanced Investment Management, with a chunk of the real thing: $5 million of the school's $245 million endowment...
...faculty and administration, a potential check, if you will. But Harvard's version of student government, the Undergraduate Council, plays no important role in University decisionmaking. Its statements on policy are largely ignored and its members are not included in any meaningful decisions. And because the University does not entrust the undergraduate government with any responsibility other than deciding how much money to spend on its own furniture, students do not take seriously their own representatives. In the face of disregard on one side and apathy on the other, the Council has become an unwieldy, bureaucratized morass filled with publicity...
...care is about $3,000 a year for one child, or one-third of the poverty-level income for a family of three," says Helen Blank of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington. As a result, many poor mothers leave their young children alone for long periods or entrust them to siblings only slightly older. Others simply give up on working...