Word: professed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Domestic-partnership rights and legal gay marriages, therefore, can be justified to the extent that the couples involved profess a willingness to accept the mutual financial obligations, community-property rights and shared commitments to care for each other that are the basis of family life. With this broader goal in mind, it makes sense for society to allow -- indeed to encourage -- domestic partners both gay and straight to take on all the rights as well as the responsibilities of marriage...
...family is little better. Although they profess to be loving and sensitive, their favorite activity is gorging themselves on ice cream sundaes while forcing me to eat stale and chewy tofu-based ice cream substitutes that taste like dirt. (And I don't like dirt...
...president and the governors met for only two days at the education summit. Their intention was not to establish a comprehensive national education policy, but simply to identify areas in education that need improvement. Little more can be expected in a two-day period from people who do not profess to be education experts...
Despite slipping retail sales, most consumers profess relatively little fear about the economy. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 6 out of 10 adults described current conditions as fairly good or very good, down only a trifle compared with January. Looking ahead to the next twelve months, 72% expected conditions to stay the same or improve, while just 24% of those polled saw the economy getting worse. Asked about their spending plans in the coming year, 65% said they thought it would be a good time to buy a major household item -- a refrigerator...
...American mind so much as it lives under the American skin, deep in the American gut -- that somehow the U.S. is morally superior to every other country in the world. This innocence about our misdeeds, not understanding that we've been accomplices in the very evils we profess to abhor, that's got to be buried...