Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sings in a clear, soprano voice next Sunday at the Back Room at the Idler, starting at 9 p.m. Other evenings at the Back Room: tonight, Molly Malone, ('40s blues); tomorrow, Patty Larkin (reggae, jazz); Saturday, Jim Bashian (folk guitar); Monday, Janie Barnett (folk and blues); Tuesday, Amy Foster (guitar and dulcimer); and Wednesday, Paul Rishell (blues, acoustic and slide guitar). Be there, aloha...
Esoteric Devices. Partly, the U.S.S.R.'s computer development lags because of its decision not to foster the kind of consumer society that has nurtured the rapid growth of the industry in the West. Of the large number of computers installed in the U.S. (300,000, v. an estimated 22,000 in the Soviet Union), fully three-quarters of them are engaged in commercial operations-everything from billing credit-card accounts and writing paychecks to sending flowers by wire and keeping baseball statistics up to date...
Finally, the President sent a letter to Senator Abraham Ribicoff: chairman of the Senate committee that confirmed the budget director, recommending an unlimited extension of the Dec. 31 deadline. The deadline. Carter noted, helped to foster "a substantial artificial lowering of the stock price." Ribicoff agreed to have his committee consider the idea...
...doctor forevermore the stuff of baseball trivia. Rod was a sickly child who contracted rheumatic fever when he was twelve. His resulting weakness drew his father's alternating scorn and uninterest. His uncle, Joseph French, a recreation official and Little League coach in Panama, became a kind of foster father, taking the boy to ball games and encouraging him as he grew stronger to use his emerging athletic talents...
...enactments here brutally coerce poor women to bear children whom society will scorn for every day of their lives. Many thousands of unwanted minority and mixed-race children now spend blighted lives in foster homes, orphanages and 'reform' schools. Many children of the poor will attend second-rate segregated schools. And opposition remains strong against increasing [federal] benefits for impoverished mothers and children to grow up in a decent environment. I am appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a "right to life" that means, under present social policies, a bare existence in utter misery for so many...