Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These new requirements render Bovet unfit for the post, according to Wilson and Chamberlin...
...STORIES, Dec. 11]. Surely all who read about her will wonder how anyone could be so cruel and inhuman. The answer is simple: drug abuse and lack of personal responsibility. That child should have been taken permanently from her mother at birth, when it was clear that Lopez was unfit to care for Elisa. Until we clean the streets of drugs and hold people responsible for their actions, these pathetic tales will continue to be told. May Elisa finally find peace, and may Lopez find the severest punishment available under law. MICHAEL B. DOPP Farmington, Connecticut...
...decision was certainly a gamble; he burned the President, the minority leader and many fellow lawmakers who took Gingrich's disloyalty as a sign that he was unfit for leadership. But by refusing to perform his role as whip he laid the foundation for a bigger prize. In one skirmish he had cast himself as a populist, antitax revolutionary and vanquished both the Democrats and the moderate Republicans who stood...
...victimizer--she admitted she won with "tainted money," but she "can't give an election back" because it would deprive Utah residents of their voice--was pushed offstage by Enid the victim. (And by the way, she revealed, Joe has made some "questionable life-style choices'' that make him unfit to share custody of their daughter.) Certainly, she's in a fix, having to hire lawyers, perhaps pay more than $1 million in campaign fines, and support herself. She's been behind on the $3,800 monthly rent for her Georgetown home. Although she showed moxie by turning her baby...
...popular conception, the majority of Gypsies are not itinerant, except when uprooted by local prejudice or intimidation. Despite the external squalor of their compounds, Gypsies, Fonseca writes, are almost ritualistically fanatical about cleanliness. She describes living in a Gypsy family's home in Albania, where she was considered unfit, as a mere gadja, to wash herself. Proper scrubbing was performed by two teenage girls...