Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves and their families deprivation. Typical is Richard Parsons, president of the Dime Savings Bank in New York City. "Why should I live in Harlem?" asks Parsons, who resides in a wealthy Westchester County, N.Y., suburb. "If given a choice between unsafe streets and poor schools on the one hand, and peace and quiet and quality schools on the other, who wouldn't pick the best neighborhood and the best schools? The black underclass is not just our problem. It's all of society's problem...
...high school students. Together with regular Sears employees, the price changers wielded 29,000 label guns. Said Chris Skinner, a high school freshman who worked at the Sears outlet in Columbus' Northland Mall: "The worst was the screwdrivers. You had to take them all down, clean each one by hand, then put them all back...
...home from the Far East. "I haven't wavered one iota," he said aboard Air Force One, "and I don't intend to." Over the next several days he summoned more than a dozen Democratic Senators to the White House for a personal appeal not to slap away the hand he offered them at his Inauguration. Yet the Administration seemed to know that Tower was a lost cause. By Thursday, when the Senate began its rancorous debate on the nomination, the President's advisers admitted they had failed to lock up a single Democratic vote. On Capitol Hill the Bush...
...superiority of sharing over commerce. Whatever you may think of Titmuss's larger point, the appeal of the blood-donor system as a small testament to our shared humanity is undeniable. Perhaps we should do more to encourage organ donation at death for the same reason. On the other hand, however cozy and egalitarian it might seem, a system that supplied all the kidneys we need through voluntary donation would be no special favor to our Turkish friend, who would be left with no sale and no $4,400. Why not at least let his heirs sell his kidneys when...
Many Catholic academicians, pleased with the laissez-faire environment that has developed since the Second Vatican Council, are anxious to prevent any rollback. The Vatican, on the other hand, intends to issue a long-pending decree on higher education including specific provisions for removing dissidents. The whole issue could come to a head next month when some 170 Catholic leaders from around the world meet in Rome to discuss the final draft of the decree. Father Richard McBrien, chairman of the University of Notre Dame theology department, is confident that the document will cause no change in the status...