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...root problem, say most reformers, is that AFDC does not require recipients to do anything in exchange for their benefits. Indeed, as presently administered, AFDC actively discourages work, in keeping with the bygone society of its origin, which simply assumed that most women would devote themselves to housekeeping and child rearing. Says Moynihan: "AFDC is unable to command stable political support. A program that was designed to pay mothers to stay at home with their children cannot succeed when we now observe most mothers going out to work...
...Understanding the surface structure of semi-conductors in the root of understanding micro--electronics," Clowes Professor of Science Henry Ehrenreich said...
Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said he would root for the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series. "The Reds always win," said the noted Kremlinologist...
Nixon also had advice for the President in one of his other areas of expertise. Two Saturdays ago, he phoned Reagan, urging him to root for the New York Giants against the Washington Redskins. But Nixon, no longer a fan of things Washingtonian, was unable to shake Reagan's loyalty to the home team, which got clobbered by the Giants...
...Knowledge is key to liberation," said Isaac, dressed in a white djellaba, traditional Ethiopian garb. "The denial of Black peoples as humans is at the root of apartheid." The Ethopian-born professor stressed the need for intellectual equality of opportunity in the United States and South Africa through the study of African heritage...