Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the new rules, Wells' life changed drastically--but not the way reformers intended. She did give up welfare last year, but not to work. Instead she lives with her mother. She takes the occasional odd job and gets help from her children's father, who kicks in support "whenever he can." Health care is tough--"I have a pile of bills this high," she says--but she found a hospital emergency room that treats her kids even when she can't pay. Wells succeeded in bucking a major national trend. She didn't join the millions of Americans...
Considering that there's essentially no science to support it, the Mozart effect has had a pretty good run. Parents all over the U.S. have been playing the Austrian composer's music to their infants and toddlers on the theory that it stimulates brain development. Even a few state governments have got into the act: Georgia and Tennessee are giving classical-music CDs to new mothers, and Florida has mandated that state-run day-care facilities play such music each...
...with Honor gives well-deserved recognition to the heroism of the American POWs who endured years of unspeakable torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese. In his televised interview, my father Commander Jeremiah Denton stunned and infuriated his captors by defying them directly with words that pledged his support to the American government "as long as I live...
...think he will be focusing a lot of his efforts on how to use technology to support academics at the University," Walsh said...
...Seniors were so willing to support the scholarship fund because financial aid is something they benefit from and can relate to," said gift co-chair Ann E. Schneider...