Word: instruction
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...family-readiness groups attached to every company. They explain how to get car-insurance rates lowered without dropping the deployed spouse from the policy. They've arranged for the local department of motor vehicles to offer driving tests in the many languages of Army wives, like Korean. They instruct families about what not to stick in the care packages they send over: any overtly religious books or objects likely to give offense to Kuwaiti Muslims, any pork products, any magazine with revealing pictures of women, whether it's Maxim or Vogue; absolutely no alcohol...
...class will instruct nuptial novices on the practical matters of married life, such as child rearing and budgeting. But some women's-rights activists say the measure will do little to reduce splittist behavior. Sociology professor Ku Chung-hwa says marriages are on the rocks because women are no longer willing to be the junior partner. "Taiwanese women nowadays enjoy higher autonomy, and such individualism and feminism is in conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise...
...swingman is making noise on the court, and still saving some breath to instruct his team alongside...
...gaming venture, these full-service backers will bankroll genealogists to construct a family tree, then hire lawyers and lobbyists in Washington to help change the band's status. And if a reservation isn't prime real estate for a casino, the investors sometimes purchase a more suitable patch and instruct their lawyers and lobbyists to persuade the government to designate the land as a trust, as reservation property is called. Building the casino is the easiest step...
...Hollywood, most of the cynicism is found behind the scenes--in the conference rooms where a film's every truckling nuance is debated. Chicago, in director Rob Marshall's bold, strutting, rapaciously funny version, puts the cynicism up front, where it can titillate, horrify and instruct us. The movie cheerfully displays the backstabbing and lies--the desperation to be No. 1 and have everyone else be zero--that go into making the tabloid and celluloid shams that beguile...