Word: guilts
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...legal grounds of the suit, as well as who the plaintiffs or defendants might be, have not yet been made public. Unfortunately, the case for slavery reparations, while intuitively appealing, founders on the details of who should pay whom and of the assigning of centuries-old guilt...
...position - a development that could help diabetics and people with weight problems modulate their responses to sugar. It might also mean that people like me (who tend to eat perhaps a bit too much sugar) will have a great new excuse around major holidays. Indulgence, in other words, without guilt: "Oooh, pass the candy dish. Don't give me that look, Mom. I can't help it. My genes are crying out for modified white sugars...
...decade-scale bumps and troughs are averaged out, grades increased at a remarkably constant rate through most of the twentieth century. If there is evil here, then there has been evil for a long time. If ethnicity, psychology, guilt, affirmative action, the idealization of self-esteem or faculty spinelessness is supposed to explain late 20th-century increases in grades, then the same theory needs to be tested against the full, continuous course of increase in grades at Harvard...
...Parents are also driven by something a lot more primal: old-fashioned guilt. Even as men take on more responsibility for rearing children, the lion's share of baby care is still handled by mothers. But in an era in which it often takes two incomes to meet the monthly nut, increasing numbers of moms can't spend nearly as much time with their kids as they'd like. In 1999, 62% of mothers worked outside the home. That figure was 54% in 1985 and just 44% in 1975. "Parents feel tremendous guilt because they feel they're spreading themselves...
Cliff infuses her puritanical and fantastical world with a gritty bit of real life. He smokes and drinks unabashedly, treats her like a woman and philosophizes in a layman’s way about such lofty subjects as freedom and guilt. He shatters her system of values with such statements as, “Maybe she did the right thing, maybe she’s happy now,” when commenting on the previous tenant’s suicide, and enrages Rose so much throughout the course of the play that he actually gets her to swear...