Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intention to portray Harvard Real Estate as an immoral, heartless organization. On the contrary, Harvard has demonstrated a significant level of concern for the homeless. Still, this does not make the cage acceptable. It remains a fundamentally unjust solution that discriminates against the homeless. And it illustrates the all-too-common tendency to treat the homeless as pests, not the human beings that they...
While feminists and many of their liberal allies portray single motherhood as a fully viable and acceptable alternative to the two-parent family, the facts tell a strikingly different story. A study done by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1988 found that children in single-parent families are far more likely to drop out of high school, get pregnant as teenagers, use drugs, and break the law than their counterparts in two-parent households...
...composers apart, though, is their ability to combine disparate influences in the same score, drawing equally on rock, jazz, classical and folk influences. In Braveheart, for example, Horner melds the lonely sound of the Irish uillean pipes and the Peruvian flute with a modern symphony orchestra to portray Mel Gibson's doomed hero...
...serious doubts as to whether the Senate Republican leader really understands the mandate the voters gave us last November to make dramatic change," Wilson told the Heritage Foundation in Washington. Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante says it's the opening gambit in the California governor's plan to "portray himself as taking action as governor on these very issues that Dole is just talking about and compromising on in the Senate. Wilson wants to stake out the position of the action taker, rather than someone who just sits in Washington and can't get anything accomplished...
...spending as part of the effort to balance the budget. And the amount they're hoping to squeeze out of Medicare--$270 billion over seven years--is embarrassingly close to the amount--$245 billion--they're planning in tax cuts, mainly for the affluent. Naturally, they would prefer to portray their Medicare cuts as an effort to "save Medicare." But $270 billion is double what would be needed just to stabilize the trust fund...