Word: warms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...save up money for a big adventure: a train ride to visit relatives in North Carolina. The dialogue is shrewdly written; Aunt Odessa, up from the South, talks country ("You wasn't worried now, was you?"), though Ernestine's parents speak Standard English. The beautiful drawings show a warm, believable middle-class black family of about 40 years...
...treaties like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, are eroding the power of America as a sovereign nation. On a home video promoting patriot ideas, a man who gives his name only as Mark from Michigan says he fears that America will be subsumed into "one big, fuzzy, warm planet where nobody has any borders." Samuel Sherwood, head of the United States Militia Association in Blackfoot, Idaho, tells followers, absurdly, that the Clinton Administration is planning to import 100,000 Chinese policemen to take guns away from Americans...
...attempt to attract more women to math and science, some experts suggest making these fields more "female-friendly." We need to be careful with such labels, as they run the risk of insinuating that women are inherently uninterested in math and science. Such a warm and fuzzy term detracts from the necessity of changing the image of science. Science is not being changed to make it easier for women; rather, it is being made more applicable and relevant to them. Emphasizing the usefulness and positive social benefits of science makes it more of a real option for young women...
Strong ethnic flavor and warm community cooperation make Inman Square an urban anachronism, a reminder of an era when stickball ruled the streets and store owners spoke to customers in their native tongues...
...people stop in at House of Sarah Books to see Emily, the warm grey cat, as much as they come in to buy books, according to salesperson Everett B. Rand...