Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...expect me to tell you when we are going to carry out military operations. We are working to build an Arab-Islamic front that will support us in rejecting all the agreements reached behind closed doors between the P.A. and the Zionists...
...risk of becoming criminals, homeless or pregnant after being "emancipated" from the system, according to child-welfare experts. Until a few years ago, many kids who reached legal age had no help to ease the transition. Somebody would show up on the doorstep of their foster homes and tell them to pack their belongings in a plastic...
...hear federal officials tell it, one of the best solutions to America's foster-care crisis often boils down to one word: adoption. New figures released by the Department of Health and Human Services show that 46,000 foster-care children were legally adopted in 1999, a 28% increase from the previous year's total. Money is part of the picture. For every child adopted beyond the number of adoptions in the previous year, the feds pay the states a bonus of $4,000, to be used for their foster-care and adoption programs. Kids with special needs are worth...
...emotional rigors of championship chess, which can produce Patrick Ewing-like levels of sweat in competitors. "This match was won by Vladimir's excellent preparation," said ordinary nerd Kasparov, who has been top chess champ for 15 years. "I was outplayed not at the board but in the preparation." Tell it to Deep Blue...
...Gore's reading that 55 percent of Americans tell CNN/USA Today/Gallup they support a Florida hand recount - in this season, a landslide. The Bush team, in danger of sounding like vote-suppressing meanies, rejoiced at Harris's firm intention to contain the process in Florida, or at least its effect on the national election. But now it's Bush and Harris against Gore and a whole lot of lawsuits. And in court, the Bush team is already...