Word: grow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Colton told the audience of about 70 that while great strides have been made in providing more Americans with adequate housing, policymakers should not grow complacent with their success...
Colton told the audience of about 70 that while great strides have been made in providing more Americans with adequate housing, policymakers should not grow complacent with their success...
...feelings of inferiority grow ceremonies, sacred rituals and symbols of counterfeit power--swastikas, trench coats. One boy, Eric Harris, establishes a home page on the Web: "Welcome to the works of the trench coat." They have become their symbol. Disguised, secure, they are free to cultivate what W.B. Yeats condemned as "an intellectual hatred." For Trench Coat Mafia members no less than ethnic cleansers, hatred becomes an object of intense study, a major, a creed. There is pleasure in it, in being on the outs with society. The boys form a Nazi fan club. They pick up enough German...
...strong sense of identity. While that view is shared by many officials in the foster-care system, there are now laws in place forbidding officials to use race as a routine consideration. And proponents of transracial placement have research behind them. "The bottom line is that these children grow up healthy and with ties to their culture," says sociologist Rita Simon...
...times, however, are achanging. It's not quite Stepmothers' Lib yet, but as their ranks grow, stepmoms are becoming more vocal. Websites abound, as do organizations like Stepmothers International, Inc. in Arlington, Texas. A number of guidebooks, while polite in tone, share a quiet militancy, as their stepmother-authors demand respect and understanding for who they are and what they have...