Word: controller
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...recent speeches, Gore has contrasted what he terms a traditional national security agenda--which deals primarily with defense concerns and arms control--with his own, which emphasizes solutions to poverty, population growth, environmental destruction and pandemics such as AIDS...
...panelists also noted that in recent years, donors have asked for much more control over how their money is spent and demanded that it go to specific purposes rather than general university expenditures...
...bring the ballooning debt under control, she stopped using credit cards and made nominal payments on her accounts. "I thought if I sent them something, $10 or $20, they would leave me alone," she says. But she only fell further behind. Even in months when she didn't use the credit cards, the amount she owed rose because of late-payment penalties and interest charges. Before long, she needed to pay at least $300 a month just to stay even...
...sure, some lawmakers who voted for the bill believe bankruptcy is out of control, that many filers just want to walk away from debts they can afford to pay. Some were angered by the procession of Hollywood entertainers and other wealthy prominent citizens who used the system in the 1990s. Some were annoyed by lawyers who advertised bankruptcy as an easy solution for overextended consumers. And some were troubled by what they saw as a decline in values. "We have had a general lack of shame or personal responsibility that used to be associated with paying bills or not paying...
...over guns in America highlights the distance between the personal and the political. Women, while telling pollsters that they overwhelmingly favor more controls on guns, have been largely silent on the issue in public. But as each fresh shooting horror is met by the same inaction in Congress, a roiling frustration may be awakening an army of moms who see themselves as outsiders armed only with their clout as voters and agitators. And as politicians stare into the gender divide--polls show that about 72% of women, vs. 22% of men, favor more regulation of firearms--gun control could join...