Word: act
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...Putnam says volunteering can sometimes act as too much of a band-aid for deeper social problems...
Pressure from the state makes this term seem all the more important. On the school committee, there is a sense that the panel needs to act decisively in the coming months...
...welcome but somewhat belated act of conscience, Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced a moratorium Jan. 31 on executions in his state. Illinois has been ground zero for the death penalty battle: over the past 13 years, 13 prisoners have been released from death row on the grounds of their innocence, more than have been executed during the same period. Although Ryan had consistently defended the death penalty until now, another exoneration last month and a scathing review of the justice system by the Chicago Tribune apparently convinced him to change his mind. In a statement that we should expect...
...Academy Awards, she was always good material. In 1943 I got laughs with, "During the dinner, I gave one of the greatest performances ever seen in Hollywood. I sat next to Hedy Lamarr and had to act as though I was interested in the food...
...reason, she decided, was this: by the late '90s, women were swarming into all kinds of jobs--but without surrendering their traditional homemaking and child-rearing roles. Result: the bewildering juggling act that defines today's working mom--and a chance for the Web, in Carpenter's words, to "turbocharge women's choices...