Word: sharing
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...soon as they find a job and no longer have to share an apartment with friends or relatives, Jeune says, Haitian immigrants move out of Cambridge...
...pervasive is the gender gap? According to Thomas Mortenson, an education analyst in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the share of college degrees earned by males has been declining for decades. U.S. government figures show that from 1970 to 1996, as the number of bachelor's degrees earned by women increased 77%, the number earned by men rose 19%. Not all schools are feeling the imbalance; many elite colleges and universities have seen applications soar from both sexes. But the overall numbers, says Mortenson, should make us "wake up and see that boys are in trouble...
...called a time-out from the rules that dictate our everyday lives, and for many families this is a delightful occurrence. Unfortunately, this time of year also presents us with unusual social situations that call for extended families and friends to come together and share the convivial spirit of the season, which in my family leads to the annual shock of rediscovering that our adored children are, when it comes to eating, a pack of wolverines...
...Barak may be banking on the legislators' being too attached to their jobs to pass that bill in time. Many of the smaller parties that share the Knesset with Likud and Barak's Labor party have little interest in a new parliamentary vote - most importantly, the powerful ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which grew substantially at Likud's expense in the last election, but which may shed some of those gains in an election fought in the heat of a Palestinian uprising. And Netanyahu also has to dispense with the Likud incumbent, Ariel Sharon, who has no plans to step aside...
...states squared off against the smaller ones over the number of votes each member should have, but historic rivalries among the British, French and Germans also limited the extent to which they were willing to present a united front. Germany was forced to back away from demands that its share of votes in the councils of Europe be expanded to reflect the fact that its population exceeds that of Britain, France and Italy by 20 million - Berlin currently shares equally the highest number of E.U. votes with those three countries...