Word: reproachfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rigid. We have been more successful than is often realized in ending or alleviating certain kinds of poverty. The underclass, with its devastated family life, its single mothers and routine teenage pregnancies (among black teenagers, nearly 90% of babies are born out of wedlock), is a nightmare reproach to America. But it is also a relatively isolated phenomenon -- far more so than the poverty that festered behind the proud facades of Victorian England, for example. It requires separate, special treatment...
...Committee for Responsible Research applauds the recent appointment of the nation's first Commissioner of Lab Animals by Cambridge. In your article covering this historic event [The Harvard Crimson, May 9, 1990] Harvard Animal Care Committee Chairperson Dr. Richard Taylor claims that Harvard's programs are "exemplary" and beyond reproach...
...could question the worthiness of the Glasers' cause, the depth of their tragedy or the sincerity of their commitment. Yet their ability to generate headlines clearly resulted from Paul's celebrity status. Were the Glasers manipulating press coverage? Of course they were, although their motives were above reproach...