Word: directives
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Vice President Al Gore '69 espouses a vision of America as a vocal and active member of the community of nations. Texas Gov. George W. Bush has taken a much more isolationist approach, saying that the U.S. must only intervene in outside affairs when it is in America's direct national interest...
...should dispel viability concerns, and it changed the structure of its governing board to include equal representation among students, administrators and sweatshop experts. In addition, the WRC is in constant contact with the corporations it monitors. It would represent a clear conflict of interest to give those corporations a direct role in the WRC's governance...
...another aspect of the candidates: how they are as managers and what that would mean if they were in the Oval Office. The story also includes charts of the people around both candidates who really influence their thinking. And deputy Washington bureau chief Matt Cooper, who has helped Duffy direct our political reporting, provides the latest in his string of dispatches from the trail. This one is on Ralph Nader...
Much of the increase in the rate of female incarceration is a direct result of harsh mandatory-sentencing laws that impose minimum jail times for all drug offenses. Many of these drug offenders are women, frequently poor African Americans and Hispanics, who wind up in prisons built for hard-core male felons, not pregnant and parenting women. "These kids are innocent victims of their parents' misconduct," says David Steinhart, co-author of the 1993 book Why Punish the Children...
...South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas and Colorado seek to direct taxes on gambling and lotteries to benefit schools...