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Welfare professionals have a term for these persistent welfare cases: the hard to serve. Many have backgrounds that employers shun: weak education, illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, mental-health problems and criminal records. Often they also have logistical obstacles, like transportation and child-care difficulties. And, some argue, many of them have the toughest barrier of all: they don't want to do work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Still Be On Welfare? | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...girl I met at the Ice Cream Bash confirmed this hypothesis: "Harvard only uses Coke products," she complained. Yale, on the other hand, had Pepsi products. It was not political passion but simply an inflexible taste-preference that made her shun Coke. Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Trivial Truth | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...girl l met at the ice Cream Bash confirmed this hypothesis: "Harvard only uses Coke products," she complained. Yale, on the other hand, had Pepsi products. It. was not political passion but simply an inflexible taste-preference that made her shun Coke. Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIVIAL TRUTH | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...NATO cannot continue to harbor delusions about a war without casualties. If they choose to bomb a country they can't embrace bombing but shun ground warfare. If the U.S. is to fight it must immerse itself in warfare. Since it made the ominous step into battle, it must fight with the convictions and realism of a real...

Author: By Timothy E. Bazzle, | Title: War Means War in Kosovo | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

After watching the interview on 20/20 and reading your article, I believe that Monica is a very hurt, very confused woman who made a mistake--a mistake that many women have made before her. And though we shun such women and call them vixens, I believe this case is a perfect opportunity to look at how these women actually feel: alone and unloved. TIFFANI NYE Seminary, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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