Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lousy Parent. Jackson brands as "hypocrites" those who advocate major cutbacks in U.S. military spending while at the same time pledging security for Israel. He favors embarking on new major weapons and space systems in order to meet a threat of Soviet lodgments in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Privately, he has warned President Nixon to send no Strategic Arms Limitation treaty to the Senate if it would curb only defensive weaponry while leaving unchecked the steady growth of Soviet offensive missiles. He regrets that the U.S. has failed to achieve a quick victory in Viet...
...only presidential candidate's child who is attending public school. Forty percent of Anna Marie's schoolmates are black. Her principal and teacher are also black. While Jackson says that he welcomes black pupils who are bused to the school, "I'd be a lousy parent if I agreed to bus Anna Marie out of our neighborhood school to an inferior black...
...been much too close to Kafka to bring himself to read the novels and diaries. The Kafka he knew was closer to the Kafka who worked eight or ten hours a day in the Workman's Accident Insurance Association in Prague than to the one who returned to his parent's home at night to write. It is not that Janouch knew only the superficial side of the man, for Kafka speaks in the Conversations on a uniformly profound level, but that Kafka viewed his own "scribbling" as the "exorcism of spectres" and grew reticent and embarrassed whenever pressed...
...strong enough to participate on an equal basis. To strengthen it, the two political leaders loaded the agreement with safeguards that favor Canada. Under its terms, Canadian-built cars have duty-free access to the U.S. market. But only Canadian manufacturers can bring cars built by their Detroit parent companies across the border without paying duty; individual Canadians importing U.S.-made cats must pay a 15% tariff. Also, the ratio of cars assembled in Canada to cars sold there must not fall below 1964 levels. Canadian plants were then turning out four cars of every seven sold...
Canada's Premier, the proud parent of month-old Justin Trudeau, was given a copy of Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. "Very interesting," said Pierre Trudeau. "I knew he was an antiwar leader, but I never realized he knew anything about babies...