Word: sagas
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...most nationally publicized cases, the saga of Baby Jessica is bound to fuel the movement to change the way the law is applied. The DeBoers' whole legal strategy depended on the courts being willing to shift priority away from parental rights and toward what was in the best interests of the child. That way, even if the Schmidts' claims were considered legally valid, Jessica might still remain with the DeBoers to avoid a traumatic upheaval. The approach, lawyer Scarnecchia acknowledges, was an experiment "in that it says a child's rights are paramount in a custody case...
Piers Paul Read brings alive the Chernobyl saga...
...world really act as fast as possible to meet the threat? The answer, unfortunately, is no. The eventual rescue operation was the last chapter in a long saga of confusion, wishful thinking, indecision and delay. For nearly a decade before the 1987 ozone treaty, nations were warned of the danger but did nothing. In the U.S. those who had the power to take action instead engaged in self-delusion: the Reagan Administration at first dismissed the ozone threat as a nonissue, while Du Pont and other manufacturers underestimated future sales of CFCs, making the hazard seem minimal...
Murphy Brown's saga reflects a growing trend in society away from married two-parent families. This trend, far from being thought of as harmful, is viewed as one of the signs of a very healthy larger movement away from old social taboos (divorce, step-families, unwed pregnancy, and sex) and narrow traditional family values (married two-parent families...
...question is, what will Powell and the world see and hear when he is at the podium? The answer is the only component of this saga you can control. Will he see a large number of people who have thought about his stand on the gay ban and approve of his presence? Probably. Will he see a bunch of students in shades who are too hungover to think abot any of this? Defintely. And he will most likely see a small group of individuals who do not feel the way he does on the idea of gays in the military...