Word: inners
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...20th century, he was also an insurance executive. When he died, Stevens was vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. So where, one might reasonably ask, are his odes to the expense account? His sonnets on the ecstasies of business-class travel? The sad fact is, the inner life of the great American middle manager is woefully underchronicled...
...this. The legal drinking age was lowered from 20 to 18 in Dec. 1999, and prior to that it was illegal for many students to drink. Because they were unable to enter bars or nightclubs, it was not uncommon to find groups of young people drinking at night on inner-city streets or in public places. Many resorted to making fake IDs and persuading friends and older siblings to purchase alcohol...
Parents who don't want to overindulge their kids' inner Martha would do well to remember that imagination is free and often in ample supply in the young brain. When the trend watchers at Look-Look searched its youth network for cool room ideas, they found 17-year-old Sara from Los Angeles, who decorated every inch of her bedroom walls with graffiti. First it was random quotations and dates she needed to remember, and then she began inviting friends to adorn the walls with excerpts from favorite songs and books. "My bedroom is both a representation...
...once hawked our inner dove and waxed sensitive about internationalism, religious toleration and cooperative engagement. We resisted missile shields and proto-authoritarian conformity. And, sometimes, we forced voters to see the link between taxes and services, between economic stagnation and the Iraq quagmire and between present sacrifice and future rewards...
...also indirectly, in the lost productivity and increased social costs that these children are more likely to impose on society as adults. Early learning programs, free child care, universal health insurance and subsidies for healthy foods improve human capital, as do increases in federal spending on inner city schools and college financial aid. These programs also provide the material and educational basis for the employees of tomorrow to improve their skill set and promote higher productivity and faster economic growth...