Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ruth found a match between his enormous appetites and the national agenda. America had made the world safe for democracy. We were rich. We were strong. In the '20s we were ready to play, with truly American force. While the market soared, we knew God loved America and sent us the Babe to prove...
...teachers and I, all college undergrads, faced the constant challenge of bringing the curriculum, which was centered around stereotypes and acceptance, to an accessible and honest level. I was repeatedly struck by the difficulty of helping children discuss issues of personal immediacy, like how safe they felt at home, when my life was so far removed from theirs and the time I spent with them was so minimal...
...mangrove swamps and lagoons littered with corpses, authorities fear it may be closer to 3,000. And that may be compounded by the threat of disease as bodies lie unburied in the tropical heat and homeless residents, still in shock, find themselves without adequate food or a safe water supply. The tsunamis followed a yearlong drought in which thousands of people starved to death...
...pendulum may be swinging. Last year Congress passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which requires courts and government agencies to consider prior neglect, abuse and murder in reunification cases. States face the loss of federal child-welfare funds if they don't come into line with the act. So far, only a handful of states have amended their laws to comply. One of those is Maryland, where a group of legislators, outraged by the Pixley case, pushed a bill through this spring...
...after lots of crunching noises, the computer booted in something ominously called "safe mode." I phoned Sony's 24-hour help line, but the help guy had never heard of FunMail. Luckily, the manual's troubleshooting section allowed me to diagnose a hardware conflict and explained how to cure it. But when at last I fired up FunMail, the final half-second of any message I recorded repeated itself, as in "Seltzer boy! boy!" A Sony spokesman said I was the first person to report the bug. I am not surprised. At least I didn't lose any tools...