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...unwary parents. Then Vice President Spiro Agnew took up the same theme, though Spock's book is clear about setting both standards and expectations for children. Says Spock: "If parents are self-assured and nonhostile, they can be quite strict in such things as expecting more formal manners, prompt obedience and more courtesies. It doesn't hurt children at all to have cooperation expected of them...
...Curator Carney E. V. Gavin sifted through the blast's aftermath, however, he discovered a long-lost photographic collection that would spur the museum's revival and prompt one of its most ambitious projects in decades...
...advised that NBC (which will televise the 1985 playoffs) wants a prompt resolution on this," said "Otherwise, we probably wouldn't be talking about...
...expecting to watch her favorite exercise program. Instead, a news show on world events was on the air. Any place else, the change in programming would not have been all that unusual, but in the Soviet Union of the past three years it was more than enough to prompt the concern that it had happened again--a Soviet leader had died. The suspicion was all but confirmed when regularly scheduled broadcasts during the following six hours were replaced by nature films and classical music. Having mastered the macabre code used to signal the death of Leonid Brezhnev in November...
...notion that American corporations can prompt redirection of these sweeping racist policies through incremental change in extremely unconvincing, in light of everything we know about South. Unlike the American South, Where racism existed in opposition to established constitutional principles, the white Afrikaaner policies of apartheid are part of an entire civil theology and political culture of race separation wherein the hereditary Afrikaaners often refer to themselves as "The White Tribe." Even the token reforms undertaken by the Botha government have drawn vehement criticism within the Nationalist government and have prompted a rightward shift in much of the Afrolaamer electorate...