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Although the JAMA study targeted the children and families of active Army soldiers, not reservists, Gibbs maintains that the need for more support programs for all families undergoing the strain of deployment is evident. "To my mind, it makes perfect sense to assume that families of Guard and reserve members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan experience as much stress as do regular forces." And the military is taking notice, funding not only the study conducted by Gibbs, but also a variety of programs, some in partnership with community groups, to help children and their families impacted...
...Army, "because we have extended periods of separation of parents, and when that occurs our own analysis indicates that child neglect is likely to rise." Johnson says that the study reveals that continuous deployment, of 12 to 18 months, is causing families to feel "a certain degree of strain...
...Winfrey was judging the memory from a more literal perspective, but this makes sense since the great majority of her readers would expect memoirs and autobiographies to be 'true.'" She says that she has never read Frey's book and that she chooses to write fiction because memoirs today "strain credulity." The novelist added, "This is an ethical issue which can be debated passionately and with convincing arguments on both sides. In the end, Oprah Winfrey had to defend her own ethical standards of truth on her television program, which was courageous of her; and Nan Talese had to defend...
Ordinarily, the concept of greed isn't very useful in trying to understand the economy. We are all greedy. We'd all like more. The magic of capitalism turns our individual greed into general prosperity. But maybe an especially virulent strain of greed is spreading, something like bird flu. Maybe this is a greed so profound that it blinds its victims to their obvious self-interest. Maybe this greed can turn the brightest men into fools. It's hard to think of any other explanation...
...past millennium and almost entirely fueled the real estate boom of the first years of this millennium. It kept us spending through the tough years that followed the stock market's collapse, and it allowed the Bush Administration to finance big budget deficits without strain. Easy money also helped enable the rise of private equity as a major economic force...