Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason can be seen at 3:15 on a sunny weekday afternoon at KidsWorld, a two-acre Toys "R" Us superstore in Elizabeth, N.J. There are barely a dozen cars in the parking lot. The aisles inside the store are spacious, well lighted--and empty. A row of 20 cash registers stands idle while a lone clerk in a red apron and braids rings up a diaper sale for Kim Essen, 29, and daughters Samantha, 21 months, and Alana, 6 months. As Kim wheels her cart out of the store, she turns and says, "I like shopping here because...
...failing sitcoms these days, and that's one reason Dateline NBC's Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, now on five nights a week, seem to have become the official hosts of the NBC television network. Yet 60 Minutes, after 30 years still the highest-rated network magazine show, has managed to remain largely above this fray. It steers away (most of the time) from the tabloid subjects and celebrity interviews that its rivals use to goose ratings; it actually pays attention to foreign news once in a while; and it is still, quaintly, on the air only once a week...
...began writing poems in her childhood but decided, once she understood her parents' renown, to keep them private "for the obvious reason that comparisons would be made." Instead, after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a painter and an author of children's books. Eventually, she settled in Wooroloo, "a small hamlet, very small," in Australia, to paint landscapes of the stark, almost surreal terrain. And, as it happened, to write poetry that other people might read...
There is one simple reason why we put up with Clinton: the right-wing radio wackos. We deplore what Clinton did, but when we hear the hatemongers on the radio, we know that Clinton's survival is better for America than success for the Clinton bashers! The Rush Limbaugh imitators are actually helping prop up a flawed President. RICHARD J. ORLOSKI Allentown...
...exactly standard medical practice to call up a patient's rap sheet before prepping him for surgery, so you can hardly blame the doctors. Besides, a criminal past is no reason to deny someone medical treatment--even a treatment that is purely experimental and has nothing to do with saving lives...