Word: tasked
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...holds a degree in dairy science. She laughed and told me that one of her male co-workers, a city-slicker, had attempted to impress everyone with his bravado by describing how he used to go cow-tipping. She humiliated him by pointing out the physical impossibility of the task...
...found it exciting not only to reflect on the varied and often controversial currents that swirl around women's daily lives, struggles and victories in America today, but also to look at the challenges that lie ahead. We consider that task highly important, and TIME is committed to pursuing it without stint in the months and years ahead. We hope you get as much satisfaction from reading this issue as we did from preparing...
Will they next blame Blacks for slavery?(Or women for sexism and rape?) Sadly, such anti-gay crimes are not rare. According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals are six times more likely to be the victim of crime than any other demographic group. More than 350 people were killed in the united states last year because of their sexual orientation...
...Pack, who would have been stung by a Republican proposal to raise the excise tax on beer to 32 cents a pack. But Gephardt has another reason to be one of the boys: Anheuser- Busch Co. headquarters are in his St. Louis district. Gephardt bellied up to the task of holding the beer tax to 16 cents per six-pack. He has received $12,850 from beer industry PACs...
...preservation of species is a task involving a volatile mix of biology, politics, economics and morality. For 17 years the Endangered Species Act has provided a "911" distress line for life forms teetering on the edge. But its species-by-species approach does little to avert conflict. Man cannot manage nature through a series of ad hoc rescue attempts, ignoring the underlying causes for the loss of biodiversity. The answer is not to dilute the Endangered Species Act but to better anticipate the consequences of human activity, focusing on entire ecosystems rather than on single species. By the time...