Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty members here participate in decisions routinely through their departments," he said, adding, "It's easy to see why faculties at large, centrally controlled schools might need union representation and collective bargaining to help promote their interests...
Manos's idealism is balanced by a recognition of PBH's limitations. "Sure we help in the community, but it's only a drop in the bucket. How much can we do? That's a good question," she says...
Kilbridge said the decision to consider other options was not made because the GSD feared legal action. "We can understand why they're upset, and we want to help them," Kilbridge said Monday...
...Fairy tales are, in fact, full of parents and stepparents with a murderous bent toward kids. So why do children continue to read them? Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dorothy Bloch, 66, believes she knows why: the small child has an "almost built-in" fear of infanticide, which these hoary horror stories help expunge...
...plays Miriam, the chief accomplice and paramour of the suave con man, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), who masterminded England's first celebrated train heist in 1855. Miriam served as an all-purpose decoy: to help steal ?12,000 worth of gold ingots, she had to pose successively as a French courtesan, a cockney seamstress and an old beggar. Down turns each impersonation into a polished comic nugget; she swings effortlessly in and out of her various roles. Her scenes as Miriam are just as funny: in the film's best bit, Down turns the act of shaving Connery...