Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that SPIL was founded as a tenant advocacy group, and that a change of focus would "fundamentally alter the nature of the group...
Reunions are not for everyone. Some birth mothers would slam the door if their relinquished baby came knocking. In fact, the search process is the focus of a great debate in adoption circles. Critics contend that it breaks legal contracts, that confidentiality should be the cornerstone of adoption. Says a woman who gave up a child 28 years ago: "The mere thought of being found by this baby is so upsetting. I made a new life for myself, and it doesn't include...
...withdrawals to fund tuition or buy a first home, however, would complicate the now simple IRA, raise the potential for abuse and reduce the amount ultimately saved for retirement. Congress might better allow IRAs to be pledged as collateral on education loans and first-home mortgages. Any tinkering should focus on how to get people to put more into IRAs (perhaps by raising the $2,000 annual allowable contribution, even if the excess were not deductible) rather than on ways to let them take money...
...exposed to drugs, has a list of the mental and spiritual resources that the parents of such children should have. It could apply to anyone who takes on a special-needs kid. "You've got to be optimistic without denying what is happening," she says. "You've got to focus on strengths, keep perspective, set reasonable goals and get help when you need it. You have to be able to tolerate the unknown. You have to be able to say, 'I will love this child forever...
Saturday Night with Connie Chung is at least less tacky. Its story on civil rights leader Johns glided smoothly between interviews with real-life colleagues and re-enacted scenes from his life. Forthcoming episodes will use re-creations to focus on such issues as AIDS, abortion and capital punishment. Chung has asserted that her show's re-creations stand apart from those on other programs. "Ours," she says, "will be of motion-picture quality...