Word: tasks
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...does Dick do it? For one thing, he brings an instinct for journalistic values to the task of selling ads. For years he has delighted in meeting regularly with TIME editors to learn about the stories after each week's magazine is published. Then he takes his sales pitch into the field. "Making a sales call with Dick is a little like a religious experience," says TIME U.S. advertising-sales manager Barry Briggs. "By the time he finishes his delivery, the congregation is on its feet...
Watson and Lai also said Sullivan suppressed the findings of the Health and Human Services Task Force on Youth Suicide, which indicated that 30 percent of youth suicides are related to problems of sexual orientation...
...this be the right answer? As the rollicking little rhyme makes all too clear, young George is a clever rogue, all pudding and pie; the tearful girls are merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy in her gender in a society saturated with sexual violence and victim blaming...
...wages sagging and the divorce rate at 50%, it's hard to spin out a scenario in which large numbers of women have the option of staying home full time. The trick is to spread the burden around. Employers and government both have to pull their weight. This critical task of building strong families can no longer be defined as a private endeavor, least of all a private female endeavor. No society can afford to forget that on the backs of its children ride the future prosperity and integrity of the nation...
...Houston a stay-at-home dad kisses his pregnant wife goodbye as she heads for the office, and then turns back to the task of getting their four children fed, washed and ready for the day ahead. In Long Branch, N.J., parents work alternate shifts -- she during the day at a hospital accounting office; he at night, as a security guard -- so that their three kids won't be left with strangers. In Lincoln, Neb., a divorced mother of four -- one of the nation's 9.3 million single parents -- depends on her eldest daughter to fill in while...