Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...care that Saddam has taken over Kuwait. I don't want to lose money and lives over a conflict between Kuwait and Iraq," Waters said...
...also understand why, as his mind begins to clear, he begins to wonder about the quality of his nursing care. Most of us have been there too, realizing we are utterly dependent upon the kindness of strangers. What do we really know about them? What if their kindness hides a crueler agenda? Take Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), for example. She seems a typical nursing type -- cheerful and bustling. But there is something, well, menacing about her size, her startling outbursts of bad temper and her excessive enthusiasm for Misery Chastain, heroine of the series of bodice rippers Sheldon has been...
...come again, sounding a little more querulous with each return, like any good intention that has been put off much too long. It was once, way back in the 1930s, a brisk, young, up-and-coming idea. By the late '60s, when Richard Nixon first declared a health-care "crisis," it was already beginning to sound a little middle-aged and weary. Today, with the health-care situation moving rapidly beyond crisis to near catastrophe, the age-old and obvious solution has the tone of a desperate whine: Why can't we have national health insurance -- like just about everybody...
...WOULDN'T criticize the sincerity of people who bought a Bloomies care-package. No, my criticism has more to do with the numbing of our senses to the seriousness of what is going on "over there." The G.I. care-packages are not Bloomies' display of "New Kids on the Block" paraphernalia, to be sold to over-zealous preteens wanting to emulate their idols. Operation Desert Shield is the real thing, and it isn't for sale...
Sixty dollars is a lot of money, especially to military spouses (mostly women) who are now left with marital partners overseas. At the same time when many young women are taking financial-counseling courses in emptiedout Army forts, when women who have never written a check must finally care for household expenditures, when parents in the army can't do anything with their children but send them to relatives in distant towns, when some wives are eights months pregnant, others newly married, and others can't speak English, sixty dollars for a teddy bear appears a bit inconsiderate...