Word: fends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only major reunion-goers are guaranteed on-campus housing. Everyone else is left to fend for himself...
...recapitalization. The idea is to create a debt-burdened company less attractive to raiders. Last week both publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986 revenues: $1.3 billion), of Orlando, and travel conglomerate Allegis (1986 revenues: $9.2 billion), of Elk Grove Township, Ill., made use of this shark repellent to fend off marauders...
...campaign contributions, they are not ignored in Washington. In her just published book, Families in Peril (Harvard University Press; $15.00), she contends, "As adults we are responsible for meeting the needs of children. It is our moral obligation. We brought about their births and their lives, and they cannot fend for themselves...
...board contracts are available at Brown, at either 20, 14, 10 or 7 meals per week. Freshmen are required to choose one of the college plans, but upperclassmen--whether they opt to join a co-op, live in an apartment or stay in university housing--can also opt to fend for themselves. Kathy Payne, administrative dietician for Brown University Food Service, estimates that about 4000 Brown students have a board contract which entitles them to eat in either of two all-campus dining halls...
Second, it insults the employers of these people by implying that they are the moral equivalent of slaveowners. Would Grossman prefer it if, out of concern for the dignity of these "slaves" and her own troubled conscience, they were fired from their jobs and left to fend for themselves? Or, better yet, that the illegal aliens among them be shipped back to Mexico where there is greater equality of misery...