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...Massachusetts governor said Bush "offersslogans and symbols; Lloyd Bentsen and I areoffering real solutions to the problems Americanfamilies face every day and every week and everymonth...
...corporate efforts to help families are only beginning to gain momentum, and many working parents still face enormous difficulties. For that reason, family issues are among the hottest topics of political debate in this election year. Congress is considering more than 100 child-care bills, including the so-called ABC (Act for Better Child Care) bill. Backed by Michael Dukakis but opposed by the Reagan Administration, the measure would establish a $2.5 billion program of child-care grants to the states and would set federal standards for day-care facilities. Vice President George Bush has proposed an alternative approach...
...bridged? At times Terkel is overtaken by despair: "What had presumably been our God-anointed patch of green appears to be, for millions of us, a frozen tundra." Yet the author cannot maintain a long face. After repeatedly exposing the country's down side, he expresses his own second thoughts on the American Dream. He decides to roll the dice with America's eternal resource: the altruistic young. They "may reflect something . . . unfashionable for the moment and thus hidden away, something 'fearful': compassion. Or something even more to abjure: hope...
...gold. But Shushunova had already scored two 10s in the event in the team rounds. She knew what was needed -- and with little fanfare, she delivered. Even before the scoreboard flashed the 10, the intent Shushunova permitted the first hint of a smile to cross her face during competition...
Jewish strategy aside, Jack Frank, a Chicago Orthodox rabbi with a doctorate in pastoral counseling, questions the wisdom of intermarriages: "It's difficult enough to merge two individuals in a good marriage when their values and customs are the same." Often, he says, couples refuse to face the reality that when the first child is born, in effect "one member of the couple has to give up his religion...