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Similarly, it is unclear that the presence of avowed homosexuals will adversely affect recruiting. Certainly some people join the military because it seems an outpost of rigidity in an increasingly permissive world, and some parents urge sons to join to toughen them and imbue them with traditional manly values. But when men and women in the enlisted ranks are asked why they joined, they cite pay, training and educational benefits. Those same matters are emphasized in recruitment brochures; only TV ads still play on male bonding. Says Peter Morrison, a military demographer with the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, California...
When Ross Perot challenged George Bush and Bill Clinton in the final debate to explain why they "have people representing foreign countries working on their campaigns," his rivals bobbed and weaved. Clinton deflected Perot's dare by promising, if elected, to toughen laws governing foreign lobbyists. Bush had a see-no-evil response. "I don't think there's anything wrong," Bush said, "with an honest person who happens to represent an interest of another country from making his case. That's the American...
Rockefeller said the federal government must also re-introduce Earned Income Tax Credits, toughen child support enforcement, strengthen the welfare program and instill traditional American values...
...delay, agreed to wait for Baker to return from the Middle East before taking the bill any further. Meanwhile Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said he would hold off pushing for the $10 billion loan program and planned to toughen restrictions on any future aid, so that Israel would, in effect, be punished for every dollar it spends on the settlements...
This fall Congress will hold hearings on a bill designed to toughen the regulatory system. Sponsored in the House by Michigan Democrat William Ford, the bill would require any company with more than 11 employees to set up a worker-management safety committee empowered to enforce jobsite safety rules. "Then there's no reason for an inspector to show up to unlock a door," says Franklin Mirer, safety director for the United Auto Workers. "The workers...