Word: fond
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Jackson also angers the boys from Biblical Scoreboard because he's pledged to raise taxes on a group Jesus was never real fond of: the rich. This upsets Biblical Scoreboard, which says taxing the rich is "anti-family...
Olmos, who grew up with an extended family in a small house on Cheesbrough's Lane, still has fond memories of life in the barrio. During a visit to his old neighborhood, he pauses before a vacant lot bordered by a garbage dumper and two dilapidated cars. "Coming back really tore me up," he says. He would like to turn his great grandparents' old wood-frame house into a museum "not out of ego, but to show kids that starting from here, they can go anywhere they want." Yet it took him a while to find his own path. When...
...bill, however, was stripped of two stronger provisions: a ban on the toy-based children's shows, and a requirement that stations air at least one hour a day of educational fare for kids. The National Association of Broadcasters, while not fond of the measure, says it will not oppose it. Meanwhile, children's TV activists are claiming a victory -- barely. "As far as commercials are concerned, it says children are different from adults," notes Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television. "But any more changes and I would have called the bill a sellout...
Upon graduation, Bird will begin working in New York City and retire from the sport of swimming. But he leaves it with fond memories...
Bobby Kennedy, more than any presidential candidate before Jesse Jackson, gave hope to Black America. He was fond of chiding white college audiences for the noticeable absence of people of color in their midst. When challenged on the war issue by an angry white undergraduate, he shot back that one of the biggest tragedies of the war was the fact that it was whites, almost exclusively, who had the opportunity to question the war; Blacks were denied the privilege because they were more than likely dying on far away battlefields...