Word: damn
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...solution; the bickering factions must want peace themselves. And the evident truth is that they don't, or at least not badly enough. "The only party willing to move is the Palestinians," says a senior Western diplomat in Washington, exaggerating only slightly. "And no one," he adds, "gives a damn what they want." Where the other major players stand...
...August. Damn. Time to think about writing that letter...
Impatience with the niceties of civil liberties is also found among social- service experts. "Damn it, babies are dying out there!" says Dr. Michael Durfee, a child psychologist who tracks child-abuse cases for the Los Angeles County department of health. "You get someone with a terrible family history, stoned, no parenting skills -- and we keep giving back her babies because we don't want to look racist or sexist...
...remnant of the previous week's spontaneous noontime discussion, during which the two newest cowboys -- who hail not from Bozeman or Butte but from Tokyo and Ehime prefecture -- attempted to explain the geography of their native country. "Damn! 120 million people in a place the size of Montana," says Dillon native Jim Cherney, 28, as he looks at the map. "That's a lot of people...
Mostly, though, what people want now is more time around home and hearth. Most parents of small children work outside the home. More than 7 million Americans hold down two or even three jobs to make ends meet. "Nobody seems to have any damn time anymore," says Winby, the Hewlett-Packard executive. "People can't manage their home, work and personal life." As a result, many working mothers (and some fathers) are giving up full-time careers to devote more time to homelife. "There is a sense of an enormous trade-off between a fast-track career and family well...