Word: placing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to concentrate a little more on making sure that everything is in place before we get started," he says. "That first month was hard, but I'm back to enjoying my work. People are smiling now. People are joking. They're getting used...
...unified-field theory has room for issues ranging from voter apathy (people don't bother voting because they believe money runs the show) to abortion (organizations on both sides use the bitter fight for fund raising and don't want to find areas of compromise). He even finds a place for stubbornly local issues such as education. Move against corporate welfare, he says, and you can free up cash to help poor kids attend better schools. He suggests putting an end to $5.4 billion in sugar, ethanol and gas-and-oil subsidies and spending it on a three-year program...
...immigration," Bush told his nearly all-white audience. "Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River. There are moms and dads [who] have children in Mexico. And they're hungry ... And they're going to come to try to find work. If they pay $5 in one place and $50 in another place, and they've got mouths to feed, they're going to come. It's a powerful instinct. It's called being a mom and being a dad." He then segued from immigration to an ardent defense of free trade, arguing that only increased trade would...
...this heady mix of circus and educational extravaganza that draws visitors to a spectacular new science center that opened last week in Columbus, Ohio. Called COSI (Center of Science and Industry), the $125 million facility is a jewel of innovation--a place that its president, former space-shuttle astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, says "persuades people that the words science, learning and fun actually do belong in the same sentence." The anchor for a $2 billion downtown economic-redevelopment program, the complex occupies a 17-acre site along the Scioto River in a once blighted neighborhood that is already brimming with...
...keeping with Vatican policy, the directives proscribe abortion and a host of reproductive services, including birth control, morning-after pills and sterilization. "We can't say we're opposed to abortion as a profound human evil and then go out and build an abortion clinic," says Father Michael Place, president of the Catholic Health Association, which represents more than 2,000 Catholic facilities in the U.S. "We can't be other than...