Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, much of the grief which Duffy has encountered in his quest for MCAD's top post has come from other gays...
B.C.C.I.'s fondness for drug money brought the bank to grief in Florida and eventually led to recent mammoth losses. Undercover customs agents first stumbled onto B.C.C.I. money laundering during a sting operation. As part of the scheme, agents sent several million dollars of Medellin cartel drug funds through a B.C.C.I. bank in Miami. What happened next was worthy of Alice in Wonderland. Bank officers noticed the agents' amateurish attempt at money laundering and offered to teach them more sophisticated methods. Example: the bank would wire funds to B.C.C.I. branches around the world before handing the cash back to drug...
Many children's rights advocates, mental health professionals and terrified guardians say the no-exception policy is unconscionable. Experts are worried that children who lose both parents may suffer mental trauma, including deep feelings of grief and abandonment, and serious psychological problems in later life...
Critics of the Pentagon policy charge that neither military parents nor their children need suffer so much grief. Last month Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Democratic Representative Barbara Boxer of California introduced similar gulf-orphan legislation. Their bills would allow single parents, or one parent in the case of a military couple with minor children, to decline a war-zone assignment. Military officials would choose which parent to exempt in the case of a couple...
...privileged. Vietnam was my war, but only in the sheltered, student-deferment sense that I opposed it, marched against it and denounced it as immoral. Perhaps that explains why I had in the past approached the Vietnam Memorial with trepidation, feeling I was intruding upon the grief of others. But on the first weekend of the air war against Iraq, I found myself impelled toward these sunken slabs on the Mall, as if this were the proper moment to seek communion with the wall of names. My thoughts jumbled as I stood there: schoolboy patriotism, the waste...