Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...address the unique pressures which women face in our day and age--namely, comprehensive public-sector and corporate childcare programs, extended maternity leaves, just palimony rulings and enforcement, affordable housing, minimum wages in accordance with the costs of living and greater aid to struggling parents with dependent children. In short, a society in which economic survival, work, school, career, life expectations and motherhood are not mutually exclusive, as they often are now for single, young and poor women...
Although the exact happenings of the night of February 19 are unclear to most of us, I will assume for the purposes of this letter that Mr. Buckley's account covers the extent of them. By this account, the events of that night seem to fall far short of the unofficially maintained standards of what constitutes sexual harassment at Harvard...
...black underclass -- unemployment, drugs, teenage pregnancy, hopeless schools -- are more urgent than ever. But for the black middle class, there are new preoccupations. Not just job-creation programs, but job promotions. Not just high school diplomas, but college tuition. Not just picket lines, but picket fences. An agenda, in short, for a full partnership in the American Dream...
...ethical problems. The everybody-does-it defense may be cynical, but it has persuasive power, as long as Congress continues to confuse honor with honorariums. Ethics in government should be a bipartisan concern, not merely the responsibility of the Bush Administration. If the White House has fallen short of the standards it set during its much ballyhooed "ethics week," so too has the Democratic Congress been unwilling to judge itself by the criteria it sets for others...
...power-play 11:21 into the second period, Day celebrated with a shot into the short side of the net after Murray had drawn D'Alessio to the left of the box. And junior Chris Consorte spoiled D'Alessio's fun with a short-handed tally that gave the Saints a 4-1 lead at the 13:44 mark...