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...child so young, being removed from a home and placed with people who, however loving, are strangers to her can lead to "a loss of intellectual capacity." The hour-to-hour, day-to-day experiences of the first two to three years of life, he argues, lay the groundwork for the child's personality. "One of the basic capacities that children develop in that period is the ability to trust an adult so that they can look ahead to a world that seems to them safe and reasonable, rather than a world that is unpredictable and unstable." These are issues...
...might make a difference in 1994, in the election for the House of Representatives. At least, that's what Republicans are hoping. A year from now, Congressional offices will be in full campaign mode. The summer before the hunting season, Republicans are doing their best to lay the groundwork for a successful election...
...determine who's going to win, whether it's an HMO, a fee- for-service network or whatever. It's just to set a groundwork for who's going to compete and provide choice to all consumers. A lot of people think HMOs are going to win out, but I think Americans like a fee-for-service ((option...
...when the shooting stops. That employment practice was especially evident from the late '70s through the '80s, when the draft was replaced by volunteerism. On the eve of the Reagan Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Graham Claytor Jr., once law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, laid the groundwork for the Pentagon's current antigay policy. The essence contained in a Joint Chiefs of Staff statement was that "homosexuality is incompatible with military service...
...often frustrating attempt to sense what was going on within the compound and what the FBI intended to do. Then suddenly Monday morning Richard Woodbury, our Houston bureau chief, found himself returning pell-mell up Highway 6 from a weekend at home, knowing that the patient journalistic groundwork was about to be tested. He and Atlanta bureau chief Michael Riley, Los Angeles correspondent Sally Donnelly and stringer Carlton Stowers stared at the hot ruins of David Koresh's compound and tried, like the rest of the nation, to understand the meanings, motives and mystical beliefs that had gone...