Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...When you were asked whether the money you contributed to the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Reigle, John Glenn and John McCain -- influenced them to help you, you said, "I certainly hope...
...tired of getting hit up again and again and again. But it's the political process. You know people compare me to, say, an individual who asks for help with citizenship papers for his mother, and he gets help. But the campaign chairman for the politician doesn't go ask him for money. The chairman goes where he sees there is a source of funds. So when I ask for something, I become a prospect for money...
...family of many tens of millions of dollars. We produced, we were making money, we had excellent assets. We took a failing S&L, we made $17 million in the partial year we first took it, pretax. We made $100 million the next year. Then the Feds started helping us run it, so we only made $80 some million in the third year. Their help intensified in '87, and we made about $60-plus million. In '88 they really came in and took us over, and in '89 they completed the confiscation...
...there was one social program that congressional Democrats could exploit as a campaign rallying cry, it was child care. With elections looming this fall, they should have been in a position to trumpet their efforts to help working mothers, 75% of whom tell pollsters that they are unable to find adequate care for their children while they are on the job. Instead, House Democrats have allowed the first nationwide child-care system to become mired in committee turf battles for six months. As Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, tartly observed last week, "If this bill were an actual child, Congress...
Today social and political integration remains fraught with ambiguity. Seen as a "model minority" rather than as a group of separate communities requiring specific kinds of help, Asian Americans are often shut out of affirmative-action programs. Asian Americans say the label is used to taunt blacks and Hispanics, that it implies, "The Asians have made it, so why can't you?" Says Reed Ueda, a Japanese-American professor of history at Tufts University in Massachusetts: "It's a way of manipulating other minorities. It tends to isolate Asians and brings resentment." Unfortunately, the typical response from Asian Americans...