Word: undoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walking home alone, however, is still a fearful thing, women undergraduates say. A year after the rape, security activism has still not--and possibly can never--undo the lessons of women's precarious status in a world of violence...
During the Sixties President Lyndon B. Johnson tried to fight a war in Vietnam and a "War on Poverty." He couldn't do both. Now, with more money and innovative ideas, we can undo much of the neglect of the past 50 years...
...while at least, he can live without a capital-gains tax cut. After failing to force the Senate to include such a reduction in next year's budget bill, Bush abandoned the idea last week. The President's backdown could provide the basis for a compromise that would undo $16 billion in across-the-board spending cutbacks that went into effect last month. If no agreement can be reached, $8.1 billion will be slashed from popular programs such as Medicare and college loans...
...just a car wash for criminals who are supposed to be cleansed for life," says Pat Gilliard, executive director of the Clearinghouse on Georgia Prisons and Jails. Edward J. Loughran, commissioner of the department of youth services in Massachusetts, dismisses the whole idea of shock therapy because "you cannot undo 15 to 17 years of a life of abuse by barking into a kid's face and having him do push...
...true housesitting emergency is when the owners call to tell you that they will be dropping in for a couple of hours that night when they are in town for a meeting. When they called, I had nine short hours to undo the damage I had done. I was going to reserve the two days before they came home to clean up everything--the coffee mug-stained tabletop, the disordered CD collection, the dirty master bathroom (no other bathroom...