Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that we must succeed in one particular way, and there's something not quite right with just being someone's spouse or parent. Marriage and children--having a family--is seen as something to be put off or avoided, as a hindrance that will prevent us from achieving success...
...often it is taken for granted that "success" means beating others to the top of our chosen field--seldom, if ever, is success seen as raising good kids. My friends outlined, step-by-step, how they wanted their lives to proceed after graduation. None included a family in that picture. That shocked me. I grew up believing the most important thing any two people can do is raise children. As a friend recently put it, "to love is to live," and what better way to love than to raise children...
...nothing else, one would think that academic success could determine the BMOC's among us. But academic standards are even more complicated than fame. We may all be graded on the same scale and then sorted into the same academic groupings, but that's about the extent of the uniformity of academic experience. Does an A received in a VES or computer science course carry the same weight as one in government or economics? And which is more admirable--four years spent engaging Kant, Plato and Nietzsche, or 50 hours a week researching in the biology labs...
Florida's smoking judge concedes that criminalizing tobacco use could make it more glamorous. "That's a major concern when you're dealing with people this age," he says. But even if 15% to 20% of kids are persuaded to quit, he contends, the program will be a success. "I don't know what works," he admits. "But I figure that for a teenager, losing your license is like the death penalty...
...Vikings' recent success has heightened public scrutiny of the character of the team and provoked questions about Green's judgment. In the NFL draft earlier this year, he shocked the league when he picked Moss in the first round. Fans of Green's retort that he has pushed hard this season to reform his bad boys. By recruiting a young and charismatic team chaplain, the Rev. Keith Johnson, and being available as a father figure, Green is promoting faith and self-discipline among his wayward flock. Result: a season thus far without incident. Carter, whose drug problems got him waived...