Word: mending
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Despite the company's efforts to mend its product's reputation, serious academics still seem to turn up their noses at the thought of McPlots sandwiched between garish black-and-yellow covers...
...yellowing newspaper clips they had sorrowfully added to a family album the day their daughter-turned-radical robbed a bank. A policeman, the father of nine young children, was murdered. As the years passed, one brother feared that Kathy's parents "would die before there was a chance to mend fences." But last spring they received a call from an FBI agent working on the case. She was negotiating with a woman who might be their daughter. What questions could she ask that only the real Katherine Power would know...
...chic to state "We have a supervow!" -- with the implicit question "And how about you?" hanging in the air -- we will be on the way to valuing marriage and thus family more highly, without relying on punitive laws. Supervows alone will not carry the day, but they will help mend the American family...
...comforted me," Robby writes, "calmed down my fears and taken away my tears . . . But when the tears begin to fall and you look at me for reassurance and say, 'Mama's heartbroken,' I will not be able to console you with my loving kisses and say, 'It will all mend.' " And then mother turns on mother. "It will never mend, Jessi. It is Cara and the law that ((have)) broken you into a thousand pieces...
...such areas as public transportation and job training. But Alice Rivlin, 61, the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, named Deputy Budget Director, ardently opposes deficit spending and advocates transfer of more government functions to the states. Secretary of Commerce-designate Ronald Brown, 51, who helped Clinton mend fences with black voters as Democratic National Chairman, is a sometime lobbyist with close ties to the business community. The corporate world is also likely to feel comfortable with incoming White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty, 46. A kindergarten classmate and former campaign treasurer for Clinton, he is chief...