Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Numbering only about a hundred, the Tasaday live in families, consisting of mother, father, unmarried children and sometimes an orphan or childless widow. Though polygamy and polyandry are customary among other food-gathering peoples with small populations, the Tasaday shun both. Their marriages are arranged by parents, but in at least one case, when women were scarce a father captured a bride for his son from a neighboring Tasaday group. The Tasaday mother delivers her own child, and the father buries the umbilical cord. Outside the family, there is no formal community organization and no single leader, but several families...
...third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta's forceful mayor, Major General Ali Sadikin. "Here it is the government...
...judging of judges is generally a neglected task. Lawyers tend to shun it -at least publicly-because they may later have to appear before the very judge they criticize. Fellow judges are not anxious to question the performance of a colleague, and the press rarely pays attention to any but the most flagrant judicial transgressions. Nonetheless, in three disparate instances at home and abroad, the competence, propriety and qualifications of judges have been called into question...
...aisle or getting up to sharpen pencils." But self-discipline is another matter. To encourage it, the teachers try to steer a middle course. They refuse to insist on the old obedience, which often prevents kids from learning the consequences of their own choices. Even so, the teachers also shun the pure permissiveness that says if a child is allowed to goof off long enough, he will decide for himself that work is more satisfying. The resulting hybrid might be called "permissipline...
Mediterranean immigrants tend to shun the traditional pubs-and-beer culture, and have led the way to a three fold increase in wine consumption in the past decade. The new residents are occasionally criticized for working too hard and spending too little, but there has been surprisingly little violence or tension between old and new Australians, or among the immigrants themselves...