Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...create a real community among the people so that they feel safe," Levine says. "It's an environment good for letting people talk to each other, try out different ideas and hone their skills...
...Harry Reasoner and Ed Bradley was not easy, and reviews of her performance were mixed. Producers found her, as usual, to be a trouper -- willing to go anywhere, endure any hardship for a story. "She has a lot of cold blood," says producer Anne de Boismilon. "You can never feel fear coming from her." Others, however, grew impatient with her for endlessly tinkering with stories. "She could drive a producer crazy fixing, then fixing again and again," says one source. "What she needed was a baby-sitter to tell her to get on with...
...women still have far to go. They hold less than 2% of the seats in the lower house. In nearly a century of parliamentary government, only three women have held Cabinet posts; none do so at present. Yet women's eyes have been opened to new political opportunity. "I feel like our long-term movement has finally flowered," said Michiko Matsuura, president of the League of Women Voters of Japan...
...think whites feel threatened. It takes close contact and a lot of communication to get across the message that you have nothing to fear from the next person. We have had to prove to whites that we are not going to have power and leave them out. The burden is on us to make the effort to include them. That approach has done more for race relations in this town than anything else. I very much do not want to be guilty of some of the things they were guilty of. I have more close white friends today than...
...avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls for a "Marshall Plan for the Family," in which government would encourage day care by students, elderly neighbors and grandparents. Neighbors could form support networks so couples wouldn't feel so alone. "Traveling vans for day- care enrichment," she muses, "could roam the neighborhoods as the ice- cream man did in my childhood...