Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scent of a Woman": Did I mention that prep schools are full of sleaze-balls that hide behind their fathers, too? And that they enjoy lording it over the scholarship students...
House Masters Jurij and Emanuela Striedter say that Cabot offers many opportunities for students to become involved in house activities. They mention the annual Dutch Auction, the Underground Theatre, the frequent dinner talks with famous speakers and the weekly Coffee Table as examples...
...life. He has built two homes from the ground up, including his present one. A lecturer and the creator of maps for hundreds of books, Paul designed the wall-size maps for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, scheduled to open in Washington this spring. All that is not to mention the more than 1,000 maps he has done for TIME. Small wonder that his car sports customized license plates that read MAP ONE. "When I give lectures," Paul says, "people often ask, 'Aren't you afraid the computer will replace you?' I say, 'No, the computer is a tool...
...irony is that the first dual-career parents ever to occupy the White House have created a policy that discriminates against folks like themselves, not to mention single parents. Surely they must know this. As two politically ambitious attorneys, the Clintons have always made sure that Chelsea's baby- sitting arrangements were strictly by the book. But among the legions of high-powered Friends of Bill and Friends of Hillary, there are undoubtedly dozens who have been less scrupulous. Recent Census Bureau and IRS data suggest that only 1 in 4 people who employ household help bothers to pay Social...
...imagine him saying, "Hillary and I understand the anguish of searching for quality day care for children." He could insert some touching anecdote about the time Hillary and he were on the road, Chelsea had the chicken pox and the baby- sitter failed to show. He might also mention that the lack of reliable, affordable child care is the single biggest obstacle to getting poor women off welfare and into jobs. The arduous search for a woman Attorney General, he would then admit, has only underscored the nation's child-care woes, which affect the privileged as well...