Word: faired
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Inglis at all. He has done everything a Senator is supposed to, climbing the ladder of seniority over 32 years to become one of the most powerful in his party. He helped rewrite the nation's telecommunications laws and is among the country's most ardent advocates of fair trade. Most of all, though, he has pulled off the trick of earning a reputation as a fiscal conservative while delivering federal goodies to South Carolina: money to deepen the Charleston Harbor, new veterans' clinics and a map full of roads and bridges. "Whenever anybody needed anything, they came...
...Ford Thunderbird. And it certainly caught the attention of the Joneses. "The neighbors didn't like it. They took out chairs, put them in the driveway and just looked," says Sanchez. "The expression on their faces wasn't nice." It was gilt by association. The neighbors tried to be fair (it was Sanchez's home, after all) but felt as if their own homes had been redecorated. "Oooh," says neighbor Olivia Sandoval. "It's no good for the block. All the houses look the same, and this is different...
...rescuing women who are paid less than men for the same work? And why isn't the Fed saving American children living in poverty? The risk of saving this hedge fund has been called a "moral hazard." Hell, I'd call it a "moral outrage." ROBERT MARRONE Fair Oaks, Calif...
...instance, in the tangled debate over affirmative action, both sides too often assume that the rationale for efforts to get blacks a fair share of jobs, government contracts and slots in elite universities is to make up for historic oppression. But that is preposterous. We don't need affirmative action because our ancestors were slaves; we need it because so many of us are still being denied opportunities because of our race...
...elective abortion proviso is even more inconspicuous now than it was last year, when it was placed under an "Abortion" heading within a "Women's Health/Contraception" section (a title which, I might add, does not imply elective abortions). The guide should be fixed to give fair notice to all Harvard students that UHS does have an abortion policy that may involve the use of student fees...