Word: pro
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...places where they sleep in a large building filled with total strangers. Once, communities were linked by at least a four-in-12 sort of preference; now, living together in a House is a coincidence less instructive than matching section times. What would be better? All plans have their pro's and con's, but at least three, in my mind, might provide a better solution...
...represents them, are mature, sensible--and exquisitely patient. Therein lies the chief weakness of this provocative book: a bifurcation of the human race into the selfish and the selfless, the latter being those without children. The dichotomy is so sharp as to undermine Burkett's argument that pervasive pro-family policies in government and industry unfairly profit parents at the expense of the childless...
...anticipated, driving his Navigator from one state to another like a tank commander, rounding up signatures to get onto state ballots. The antiestablishmentarians in McCain's army are natural Buchananites, he says. And now that Bush is shuffling back to the center, he thinks religious conservatives are in his pro-life pocket. From Gore, he plans to hijack Democrats who are riled about immigration and salivating for economic patriotism...
...Pro wrestling is a business; it's an art; it's a pain. "The more you hurt each other," says veteran Terry Funk, "the more money you make." Funk is one of the stars of this straightforward documentary about a multibillion-dollar, sado-spectacular "sport." Blaustein, co-writer of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, puts no comic spin on his love of wrestling, but he does get his beefy athlete-artistes to reveal themselves as dedicated, complicated, twisted souls--like any other actors. They know that their punishment is our pleasure...
...student-maintained website includes pro and con opinions about admitting women, and most of the Deep Springers volunteer their opinions on the matter...