Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face some of those problems, deeper changes in American attitudes are required, which will take time. "My sense is that things will really change maybe another generation or so down the road," says Mark Donovan of the Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities. Others are far more pessimistic. "Give it about another 100 years," says lawyer Pinnock. "Maybe then you'll see some real difference in attitudes." But as Pinnock himself has shown, no one need wait so long to carry the struggle at least a small distance forward...
Bodley won't face that hurdle, but not doing homework could hinder her progress nonetheless. Her teachers say she has plenty of smarts, but the missed assignments added up to three Cs on her latest report card. More grades like those, her teachers worry, could keep her out of college...
...last week to fix that. But few states spend much guarding witnesses, in part because most are not nearly as angelic as B.J. "A lot of witnesses are dirt-bags"--criminals themselves who don't want or need protection, says Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. Many face incarceration and want a deal. The federal Witness Security Program is limited to people with important evidence in big cases. (Of those who get in, 98% have been involved in crimes...
...homework. The assignments were often so dizzyingly complex--one asked her to design an entire magazine--that Rachel looked for any way to procrastinate. Her mother Lissa tried banning TV for the night. When that didn't work, Lissa pleaded with increasing impatience. "I would get red in the face, and she would get defensive," Lissa says. Rachel's father typically removed himself from the fracas by repairing to the bedroom and shutting the door...
...finger that he hurt while cutting a cigar, says he made up his mind to retire at the end of last season, but kept quiet in order to support the union, which would have had a weaker position if it couldn't shake its premiere moneymaker in Stern's face. In the serious, unemotional, professional manner that characterized his career, Jordan says, "Right now, I don't have the mental challenges I've had in the past." His wife Juanita says he will do more car pooling...