Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battling the glass ceiling and pushing for child-care benefits. Labor unions are also playing a role in these struggles. In any given month in cities around the country, seminars, workshops and conventions assemble to discuss these same concerns. "This is not the organized women's movement," says Hillary Clinton, a partner in a Little Rock law firm and wife of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. "It is not top down. It is bottom up." The emphasis is on practical solutions, not rhetoric. Men are often included, and the tone is less confrontational. "Who wants to walk around with clenched fists...
Although most Governors agreed that more federal spending on schools is not the answer to their problems, they did ask that Bush help them hack through the thicket of regulations that accompany existing federal education grants. Bush agreed, in the words of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, to "swap red tape for results" in disbursing federal money. Those funds now come encumbered by rules that, for example, prevent night classes of adults from using computers bought for day classes of handicapped students...
Governors agreed that resources are wasted when states have to adhere to strict rules regarding their use. Clinton said that under certain federal programs, equipment bought for one purpose often cannot be used foranother...
...There needs to be a comprehensive child program for children under five," said Gov. Bill Clinton (D-Ark.). "We feel that should be the number one priority for the federal government...
...past two years, American women's history has gone completely untaught at Harvard, as the History Department simply neglected--or refused?--to fill a vacancy created when they did not promote Catherine Clinton to the rank of associate professor...