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...Poor women are especially hard pressed. A report by the Census Bureau estimates that mothers with annual incomes of less than $15,000 paid an average of 18% of their income for child care. Declared Texas Democratic Congressman Michael Andrews: "We have standards for prisons, roads and airports. We owe as much to our children...
...continues. It was the height of irony to find that in the same review of a movie denounced for "reinforc[ing] some long-standing racial stereotypes," the author describes one character as a "Japanese mafioso." Does the Editorial Board (which offered no disclaimer) express the belief that criminals worldwide owe their existence to an illicit network originating on Sicily at the turn of this century? Or is your belief that Italians are in general archetypal criminals...
...overly sensational. In fact, Deng is the most hard-line enemy of the students. Only the party turmoil may have delayed him from lining up support for his position. The massive sweep through Tiananmen could not have been facilitated without the cooperation of the various military factions that owe fealty to such veterans of the revolutionary war as Yang, Li and Peng Zhen...
...Well, then! You shall have the handsomest barn in England," Jones answered, and produced it. He never delegated a design or failed to transform what he copied. He thought -- and drew -- in terms of large volumes, generous spaces, exalted plainness relieved by lucid, ingenious detailing. Later Georgian architects would owe him an immense debt. He was the father of English classicism...
...leaders of the uprising to adopt the trappings of an independent state. Foreign journalists counter that the cards have no political meaning and that they carry them only because their Israeli credentials are no longer credible. "Given the dangers my staff faces," says Reuters chief correspondent Paul Taylor, "I owe it to them to do what I can for their security...