Word: vouched
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...Look After the Elderly it's hard to imagine two societies that deal with their elderly as differently as the U.S. and China. And I can vouch for that firsthand. My wife Junling is a Shanghai native, and last month for the first time we visited my father at a nursing home in the U.S. She was shaken by the experience and later told me, "You know, in China, it's a great shame to put a parent into a nursing home." In China the social contract has been straightforward for centuries: parents raise children; then the children care...
...Dial in the bathroom to the glut of semi-solid fare. Several days and several Advil later, I was ready to leave the abode that UHS had constructed for me and others laid low by this year’s virus of note. After my experience, I can confidently vouch that the quarantine strategy is one of Harvard’s few policies with virtually no major flaws: I did not want for anything but more heat-resistant popsicles...
...host circuses can vouch for a performer's suitability using their own criteria - a way of passing the responsibility for compliance from the Home Office to the employer. "If an artist doesn't behave, then it's going to reflect on us," Clay says. Of course, in an industry where men and women can twirl machetes blindfolded while standing on wild horses, it's a risk they're happy to take...
...blood on their hands. The U.S. military says it took great care during recruitment to try and prevent infiltration. According to Lieut. Colonel Jeffrey Kulmayer, chief of reconciliation and engagement for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq, "There is a screening process before they become SOI, and the [tribal] sheiks vouch for their...
...Squeezed into the last minutes before prime time began, Bush used his moment - less than half as long as Lieberman's - to vouch for McCain as "ready to lead this nation." He, too, touched on the theme of McCain's resilience: "If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what's best for his country, you can be sure the Angry Left never will." And he nodded to the well-known fact that he and McCain have never liked each other: "He's not afraid to tell you when he disagrees. Believe me - I know...