Word: stayed
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Despite offers from several law schools of a visiting professorship, Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell said this week that he will stay at Harvard and teach non-credit courses, pending approval from the school's dean...
Many parents would rather stay at home with their children than put them in day care. But this is difficult, as the current income tax deduction of $2000 per dependent would have to be raised to nearly $6000 to equal its real dollar value of the 1950s. Reform is needed, not more intervention...
...Speaker, small-time heroin peddler and barker for the Blue Note Lounge, a scumbucket strip joint in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The home is prison, out of which he is not likely to stay long. This is partly because his dim sidekick Rooski foolishly shot a Chinese druggist when the two of them were fumbling what was supposed to be a peaceful, harmless burglary. The main reason is that Joe belongs in jail, feels comfortable there. Not secure, understand, because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain...
...Politics, after all, is not just a rational accounting of assets and liabilities. All too often, the national aspirations that drive politics take on a wholly irrational character. Even if the central government applies massive and benign economic leverage by offering all sorts of inducements to the republics to stay, it may not deter them from trying to secede...
...inevitably be destroyed by the demons of nationalism? The answer is no. There is not only a grave danger but also a glimpse of hope in the revival of nationalism and regionalism in the Soviet Union. There is a double challenge: economic reform must restore the republics' incentive to stay in the U.S.S.R., while democratization and decentralization reassure their populations that their cultures will be respected and preserved...