Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other kids, Marano insists that parents can inoculate their children by giving them a solid grounding in social skills and helping them handle problems effectively when they arise. Teachers, psychologists and kids themselves tend to side with Marano and against the theory of powerlessness proposed by Harris. Parents are vital to a child's social well-being, they insist, and they offer lots of ideas about how parents can boost a child's success with peers...
...appreciation that has become increasingly vital for kids, says David Brady, manager of the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund, a mutual fund geared toward children and young adults. "With the future of the social security system in doubt and with pension plans dying out as a concept, these young people will have much more responsibility for their financial future than prior generations," Brady says. "They need to have good fiscal sense...
Second, I believe in Harvard's policy of providing financial aid to students who come from families not able to pay full freight. I believe it is vital to get alumni support for this effort to secure economic and other diversity in the student body. To my mind, the best way to give young people a chance to escape from situations in which they cannot hope for a shot at professional opportunity and other social goods enjoyed by the members of the middle class is the kind of education offered by Harvard and other colleges of reputation. So that...
Although Capuano admits that he is not too familiar with defense policy, he says it's vital to the Bay State area...
...George L. King, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Joslin Diabetes Center, has devoted more than 10 years of research to studying the effects of protein kinase C (PKC), a vital enzyme that regulates cells in the vascular system, on vascular complications in diabetics...