Word: protectiveness
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...payback time. With the backing of prominent Republicans, the Coalition next week will unveil its Contract with the American Family. Its centerpiece, TIME has learned, will be a proposed constitutional amendment to protect "religious expression" -- including a voluntary moment of silence in schools, the use of religious symbols in public places and religious invocations at public ceremonies. The bill would also expend $30 million to fund an experiment in "school choice" in low-income regions; it would end federal funding for such allegedly liberal efforts as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Department...
...Florida," says a former senior official. In 1992 he campaigned there only once and spent no money on ads, but a switch of only 50,066 votes from Bush to Clinton would have won him the state. Clinton has been wooing Floridians with regular visits, a vow to protect Social Security and Medicare and old-fashioned political patronage, like the recent announcement of the move of the U.S. Southern Command's headquarters from Panama to south Dade County...
...what the U.S. stands for. He willingly sacrificed his life, and I am proud of him. For anyone to say now that this war was wrong and could have been prevented is insulting to his memory and disrespectful to the thousands of Americans who unselfishly gave their lives to protect others' right to free speech. It is disgraceful to slander their memory in this...
...will be the next Surgeon General of the United States," said Ted Kennedy of the Senate Labor Committee, which will vote on his nomination within the next several weeks. "But he might have to be confirmed on a voice vote at 5 o'clock in the afternoon" to protect Republicans who support him from their right flank. "It's a triumph," says Mike McCurry, White House press secretary. "The fact that he's gone from dead-on-arrival to having a chance at confirmation is a stunning turnaround. Maybe every once in a while the good guy wins...
...Republicans' proposed crime bill "reform" is another facet of their Contract that has chilling implications for Blacks. These crypto-fascists plan to strip away basic constitutional guarantees that protect Americans from unreasonable search and seizure. They intend to allow evidence illegally obtained by the police to be admitted into court proceedings if the police acted in "good faith," that is, if they believed they were acting properly. This measure is perverse even by conservative standards. Instead of constraining police with the strict provisions of search warrants and the Fourth Amendment, a plea of "good faith" could excuse egregious behavior...