Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenarios in which they learn to defuse confrontation; for example, boys might be taught how not using insulting language can help resolve a dispute over the ownership of a basketball. For many boys who go through these programs, violence goes from being a first reaction to a last resort. Parents should also urge schools to conduct child-rearing classes. While schools teach almost every complex skill that people need to know, we omit what is the most important one -- how to be a good parent...
...plane headed for Central Asia, but in fact was soon admitted to a Moscow hospital with gunshot wounds, apparently self-inflicted, from which he died. Kryuchkov and Yazov, however, did get to Vnukovo Airport ahead of their pursuers from Yeltsin's headquarters, and hopped a plane for Gorbachev's resort. They were accompanied by Anatoli Lukyanov, chairman of the Soviet parliament. Though he is an old friend and law-school classmate of Gorbachev's, Lukyanov played at best an ambiguous role in the coup; he was not a member of the Emergency Committee but has been accused by some...
...more likely to arouse passion than the defense of a profession that, after exacting a grueling apprenticeship, provides their livelihood. The political system is apt to provide only limited succor; nearly half the members of Congress are lawyers. That is certainly one reason why nonlawyers feel compelled to resort to the weapon available to oppressed people everywhere -- sarcastic humor. (Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial waste and Washington, D.C., so many lawyers? A. New Jersey had first choice...
...well. Regulators have cracked down on banks, prompting them to cut back drastically on their lending. Companies drowning in debt are slashing capital investment and firing employees. Nearly 1 million workers have been laid off so far this year. Even the government, usually a reliable spender of last resort in a recession, will be absent this time because of record deficits at every level -- local, state and federal...
...turn-of-the-century hotels at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, outside Orlando. May marked the opening of the most interesting of the Disney architecture, an administration building in Lake Buena Vista by Arata Isozaki. And at Euro Disney outside Paris, where a $4.1 billion theme park and resort will open next spring, buildings designed by Graves, Stern, Frank Gehry and Antoine Predock are all under construction...