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Chung called the council's predicament a "vicious cycle," in which a lack of interest due to ineffectiveness led to a lack of support which in turn prevented any effective action from being taken...
Even worse, children from single-parent families are more likely to end up as single-parents themselves, thereby extending the vicious legacy of illegitimacy to another generation. In addition, the growing number of single-parent households only makes it more difficult for the welfare system to achieve its goal of ending poverty. The best way to end poverty is to ensure that America's poor are able to find jobs so that they can support their families without government assistance, yet the widespread existence of single-parent households makes this nearly impossible...
...suppose we were dogs; say, baby German shepherds. Four months would be enough time for us to grow from harmless pups to vicious monsters...
Take Crichton's dinos: unlike the dumb, drab, ponderous monsters that once graced the textbooks, his animals are smart, nimble and decked out in designer colors. The wily, vicious velociraptors are green with tiger stripes of bright red. Tyrannosaurus rex is the hue of dried blood. And a dino called Carnotaurus sastrei is a superchameleon, its skin capable of taking on the look of anything--a leafy branch, a stone wall or even a chain-link fence...
Nomi is oddly naive -- she doesn't know how to pronounce Versace. But she can also be vicious, learning (surprise, surprise) that the only way to get to the top in Vegas is to step on everyone else...