Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department of Massachusetts. And like similar services elsewhere in the U.S. the state's child defender force has lately been expanded and given a larger budget, partly because public concern about battered children has grown dramatically, along with increases in reported abuses. In the state of Massachusetts the subject now seems particularly urgent because of recent cases, especially that of an eleven-year-old Braintree girl whose father sued to get her back from a state-run shelter where she had been placed for her own protection. A judge gave in to his demand. The girl went home...
...ends of sentences, was almost gone. As President Carter appeared on prime-time television last week to proclaim and explain the long-awaited Stage II of his campaign to slow the inflation that has reached an annual rate of 10%, his manner and delivery befitted the solemnity of his subject. Seated at his Oval Office desk and reading from a prompter, the President vowed to try "to arouse our nation to join me" in the long-range fight...
...American military connection with Taiwan, and it may have to provide assurances that it will not try to assert its claims on the island by force. Peking may eventually meet these conditions, but so far its leaders are unwilling to discuss them in explicit terms. Whenever the subject comes up, the Chinese stiffen, saying Taiwan is an "internal matter" in which "China brooks no interference...
...Carter Administration fully realized that the whole subject of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza still clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. In fact, the only real controversy that emerged from Camp David was over how long the Israelis had agreed to refrain from building more settlements. Carter said that the moratorium was supposed to last for five years; Begin later claimed that he had agreed to suspend the settlement-building program for only the expected three-month period of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations...
That the Howe family is still powerful in Somerville is due at least inpart to their ability to avoid the subject of political corruption altogether. Marie Howe has for years been able to evade the question of personal ethics by making the issue one of ethnicity, accusing opposing Italian political families of "plots" and "vendettas" against her. In fact, she says, "It's an issue of the good people versus the bad people, with us being the good people.... They hate me because I'm totally uncorruptable...