Robert Manne
Robert Manne
Robert Michael Manneis an Emeritus Professor of politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a leading Australian public intellectual...
children stress poor-quality
To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.
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It's not anything that anybody needs, frankly. The airlines don't need it. Consumers don't need it.
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It kind of belies the contention that there is a shortage of domestic capital available for the airline industry.
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There's a fine balance between keeping the pressure on and pushing people over the edge. The judge has to have a light finger on the trigger.
care word
Care is a very different word from love,
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I feel pretty confident it's all going to come together for a successful identification,
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We want to be able to understand what happened to him fully, ... And we also want to be able to answer whatever questions the family may have about 'exactly what happened to my son, my brother.'
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They performed pretty well on the operating line, ... It was on revenue growth, not on cost cutting.
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It's absolutely harder to find seats that airlines are willing to let go for no incremental revenue.
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They've got a back-to-the-future approach. The company historically did very well when it was risk averse. They flew for the military, flew for wholesalers, flew for people who paid up front.
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We're just lucky that somebody walked by there when there was a thaw and his body was exposed. If not, he could have stayed there for hundreds of thousands of years.
With what's been accomplished to date, they could be out by this fall.
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Children need most not trained, expert, professional care, but the passionate partiality of parental love. That love is not reproducible, just as to be a mother is not reproducible. Caring is. Mothering cannot be bought or sold, or reproduced by the marketplace. But caring can.
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The pressure is hardly off. It's just as much pressure as it has been, it's just without the albatross of bankruptcy hanging over it.