Word: splits
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Today, the split between adherents of Critical Legal Studies and more traditional modes of thought have narrowed somewhat...
Dalton said she is both "a critical theorist and a feminist theorist," and that in 1987 the school was split ideologically between traditional viewpoints, critical legal studies approaches and other methodologies. Harvard perhaps "has more trouble accepting nontraditional" research approaches, Dalton said...
...Dole split his time between Washington and New Hampshire, ensuring that by 1996 voters in both places will be just as sick of him as they are of Clinton...
...future September pennant races. Beginning next year, both the American and the National leagues will be divided into three -- rather than the existing two -- divisions. To create an additional, ersatz round of league play-offs as an offering unto the Gods of Television (ABC and NBC, who will split the postseason telecasts), the owners agreed to let losers stumble into the postseason. Wild-card teams (an affront to purity invented in 1978 by the military-industrial complex that is pro football) will now contaminate baseball. Beginning in 1994, the also-ran team with the best record in each league will...
Most people agree that a child is best off growing up in an intact family with two loving parents. Most heterosexuals, and even a lot of gays, think it is better if there is one parent of each gender. Rarely is that the choice. Custody battles arise because parents split up. Children available for adoption have already lost their birth parents. Children conceived by artificial insemination would not otherwise have been born. For Tyler Bottoms and countless children like him, abstract assumptions about bettering his future mean far less than the present pain and confusion of having his family...