Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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RIGHT now, we Harvard students have the luxury of not having to make a choice about the impending war. For most of us, the military build-up in the Gulf simply does not directly affect our daily lives, so many of us do not feel compelled to take a side. We can run about buying Secret Santa gifts and writing term papers and not realize how close we are to war. But the deadline approaches rapidly...
February 15: War still rages in the desert. Casualties mount. The hostilities make it impossible for the armed forces to recruit. The promise of job training doesn't help anymore, and not even appeals to patriotism are enough to fill the ranks. Bush reinstates the draft. In keeping with the spirit of the Selective Service Act, there are no exemptions for students...
...ourselves on the line morally. If you favor using war to oust the Iraqis, fine; the nice people at the armed forces recruitment station will be happy to take your enlistment papers. If you're willing to sacrifice someone else's life, you should be willing to make the same sacrifice...
...ingenious solutions -- especially when they can enlist the help of corporations, banks and local government. In New York, America Works trains welfare recipients for jobs and pays their salaries for the first four months; if the employer is satisfied and hires a worker permanently (usually about 70% of trainees make it), America Works collects a $5,000 fee from the state. Employers get a trained employee, the state reduces its welfare bill, and the worker becomes self-sufficient...
...housing efforts all across the country. Rouse's idea was to combine government incentives, benign capitalism and community energy to build decent, affordable housing. One key to the organization's success is Rouse's knack for persuading corporations to get involved and for pointing out the tax incentives that make it worth their while. If a company invests $1 million in a financing pool for low-income housing, over 15 years it could realize $2.3 million in tax savings...