Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know personally. She cannot be ignored. And so I sling the spit rag over my shoulder and resume walking the floor, a foot soldier in the old campaign, exhausted, milk stained, borderline paranoid, poorly informed, a man nobody would ever hire to look after a six-week-old infant...
...INFANT MORTALITY PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS U.S. 140 Britain 154 India...
...that they performed hard labor), the parasitic disease schistosomiasis (most likely picked up while standing in irrigation ditches), stunted growth (suggesting malnutrition or illness) and tuberculosis. Adults died at 38, on average; few reached 50; and the presence of many children and young mothers implies a high rate of infant mortality and death in childbirth...
From the international point of view, perhaps the chief fact about the invasion is that, far from strengthening Soviet-style Communism, Moscow has further crippled it. Acting on the flimsiest and most cynical of pretexts, Warsaw Pact troops throttled the infant independence of a state that had reiterated its fidelity to Moscow and Communism. To retain its grip on Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union had sacrificed much of its influence among Communist parties elsewhere. Not since the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 had the Kremlin acted so palpably from fear and weakness...
...like the parent who wants something for a kid, and because the kid couldn't get it you rig it or buy it. That's the problem people are having with it." The critics harbor a more obvious sexism. Women's sports--perhaps because they're in a protected, infant stage--involve consensus in a way that doesn't jibe with pure, aggressive competition, critics say. If women are going to turn sports into some chick soap-opera drama, they argue, then perhaps women shouldn't be given the hardwood floor...