Word: whole
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this spirit, the paper's editors and writers have been entertaining suggestions from its readers, as well as canvassing smalltown Americans. (The final decision has yet to be made and the capsule won't be sealed until next spring). But even a "snapshot" of life, applied to the whole of human civilization, is pretty ambitious...
...There are a whole variety of factors that need to be carefully explored," Kline said. "We've been working a lot with the HUCTW leadership on this set of issues so that we can address the concerns of employees...
Forty million Americans suffer from arthritis, the painful, often debilitating disease that can affect every joint in your body. Actually, it isn't just one disease. Arthritis is a whole class of illnesses that comes in more than a hundred varieties. About 20 million people in the U.S., for example, have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease in which cartilage that cushions the joints erodes, leading to painful bone-on-bone contact. And 3 million or so more have rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammation of the joints that causes pain, stiffness, swelling and loss of function...
Steel calls his book a "meditation" on Robert Kennedy's life. Relieved of the burden of having to tell the whole story, Steel's book is brisk and analytical. He paints this Kennedy as haunted by all sorts of demons, not the least of which was his important role in urging his brother John to commit American forces in Vietnam. This made R.F.K. reluctant to step forward as the candidate of the anti-war movement in 1968 until the bolder Eugene McCarthy had demonstrated President Lyndon Johnson's unpopularity in his own party...
...some cities are targeting a whole different population for arrest: truants' parents. According to a report in Monday's New York Times, one Alabama parent was recently sentenced to 60 days in prison for failing to police a chronic truant. While these programs have shown some early success, they raise some hefty ethical questions - should we put kids in control of sending their parents to jail? Can the single parent of a grown high school student make his or her child go to school? As with most areas of education reform, there don't seem to be any simple solutions...