Word: properly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest vulnerability, however, may be overseas. A President has a freer hand in foreign policy than in domestic matters, but he also has more of an opportunity to make mistakes. West European and Japanese leaders are increasingly alarmed by Carter's habit of moralizing without a proper appreciation of power realities, a tendency they feel is all the more exaggerated in one of his assistant policymakers, Andrew Young. They fear, above all, that Carter may be weakening the U.S. capacity to stand up to the still adventurous and aggressive Soviet Union. He has taken a series of actions they...
Unfortunately, this business success--one study found 90 per cent of Kingston, Jamaica mothers were bottle feeding their children--has been a nutritional disaster for infants in poor countries where the proper facilities and adequate understanding necessary for correct preparation of the formula do not exist. Often formulas marketed in the industrialized nations come in pre-mixed liquid form, but the vast majority of those sold overseas are powders which require the addition of water. In many underdeveloped areas, no clean water is available--so sewage -fouled and bacteria-infested water ends up being fed to babies. In addition, many...
...fairly simple, but somewhat annoying procedure. It means filling out forms--forms to register your car free of charge with Harvard and forms to obtain a non-resident student permit to drive in Massachusetts. The permit is also issued for free, the only requirement being that you carry the proper insurance coverage to drive in Massachusetts. But, if you want an actual parking space, it means money. Lots of money...
...Allied Chemical was fined $13.2 million for polluting the James River; after the sum was reduced to $5 million by the federal judge who assessed the fine, the company contributed $8 million to set up the Virginia Environmental Endowment. But the Olin case raises some questions about the proper exercise of judicial discretion. Had the judge merely fined Olin for violating the anti-apartheid arms ban, the $510,000 would have wound up in the federal treasury. Do the people of New Haven have any more right to the money, asked some observers, than U.S. taxpayers? To University of Southern...
...down his elegant equine nose at the degenerate bidders. But it is not clear whether his roving glance is one of condemnation or hidden lust. This could be the most telling moment in the film. But as throughout the rest of the movie, Malle neglects to give us the proper emotional preparation...