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Recently, the head of the California Bar Association delivered an address at the annual meeting decrying jokes about lawyers, suggesting that a man who had raided a law office and killed some people in it had been inspired or spurred on by the derisive attitude toward lawyers that “lawyer jokes” fostered.
The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department.
The announcement was buried in the president's weekly radio address of Dec. 4. After boasting, "We've changed the culture of welfare from one that fostered dependence to one that honors and rewards work," Clinton unveiled three new "high-performance bonuses"--extra money that will be used as a carrot to induce states to do certain things.
One of the factors cited for the decline in personal mail volume is falling long distance telephone rates which have made telephone communication more affordable and fostered substitution of telephone calls for personal mail.
The War of 1812 was fostered by accumulated American grievances.