Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoke with "self assurance and resolve." Moynihan quoted the orator calling on the members of the educated class "to set themselves against the prevailing vulgarity that has become characteristic of American life: It is for them to endeavor to elevate the standard of public taste...to promote and foster...that true inward refinement which alone makes possible the higher social enjoyments that distinguish civilization from barbarism dressed...
...managing their businesses. Observes Stockholm University Jurist Gustaf Lindencrona: "As long as you use your money to raise productivity, the government won't do anything against it. But if people want to consume their money, the government will keep them from doing it." The aim has been to foster what the Social Democrats call "social" rather than "antisocial" uses of ownership. This will be furthered by legislation that takes effect next year, encouraging all management decisions to be subject to collective bargaining with labor unions: not only what wages to pay but how to budget investments, allocate profits...
...moved from her fallopian tube and was floating freely, but it had not yet become implanted in the uterine wall, where there would have been more difficulty in removing it. The fertilized egg was then implanted in the uterine wall of a second female that had been chosen as foster mother because she had ovulated on the same day as the genetic mother (which meant that her uterus was prepared to accept the embryo). The foster mother carried the developing fetus for 174 days and then gave birth to a normal male infant...
...studies of high blood pressure (hypertension), for example, a female baboon with a genetic tendency toward hypertension could be used to provide researchers with many more animals with the same condition. She could be mated once a month, and her fertilized egg removed each time for implantation in a foster mother. The foster mothers would then give birth to infants with a predisposition to hypertension...
...could quarrel with Berry's contention that West Point has to prepare young men to perform honorably and reliably on the battlefield. The problem that he and the U.S. Army confront is how to revise the code, and the system of justice that goes with it, to foster a sense of honor in the cadets-a system that they can uphold with honor themselves