Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fumble with less than a minute left to play inside their own half. Washington quarterback Joe Theisman dropped the ball when jarred by a blind-side tackle. The Colts easily ran out the last few seconds of play as Jones several times took one or two steps back and fell on the ball...
...often depend emotionally on the very children they hurt. Sometimes the emotional role is tragically reversed. Belisle recalls a hearing before a judge in which a mother was fighting a protective service attempt to put her small son up for adoption to protect him from her beating. The child fell while getting into the benches and hurt his head. The mother didn't flinch. "A few minutes later," says Belisle, "the judge decided to take the child away, and the mother burst into tears. And the little boy leaped up and started comforting his mother...
...watch the kids, see how they behaved, how they reacted to their parents." Adds Joanne Zannotti, Belisle's unit supervisor in Worcester: "The healthier parents are already feeling guilty and they'll bend over backward to cooperate, seek counseling." But some parents "go on insisting the child fell down a flight of stairs long after it's clear they've been hurting the child." Claims of parental love, denials of guilt, promises to reform, all inevitably affect the findings of judges when child defenders go to the courts attempting to take children away. "I think...
...initial reaction to the speech, and the plan, was far from encouraging. Corporate money managers, bankers and speculators, apparently believing that Stage II is too weak and will not work, sent the dollar plunging. The greenback fell to its lowest exchange rate since World War II against the yen, the deutsche mark, the guilder, the Belgian franc and the Danish and Norwegian crowns. The price of gold, which moves inversely to the dollar, reached a new peak of $233.70 an ounce. "We had not expected much," explained one Zurich foreign-exchange dealer about Carter's plan, "but neither...
Some of Carter's economic aides served him about as well as Typhoid Mary in the kitchen. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal talked down the value of the dollar last year -a cheap dollar was supposed to stimulate exports. Carter might have foreseen that as the dollar fell, prices of imports would rise, lifting with them the prices of similar domestic products, from Wisconsin gorgonzola to Detroit subcompacts. Budget Chief James Mclntyre last January submitted a fiscal 1979 budget that projected a $61 billion deficit, even though the country was entering the fourth year of .economic recovery. Carter might have...