Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Even when pressed last Friday morning on the "Today" show about why he wasn't talking about his executive record, Gore didn't take the gimme moment in front of 6 million viewers about welfare reform, a balanced budget, free-trade agreements, low crime rates and newly protected wilderness areas. "This race is about the future," he stammered instead. "President Clinton is my friend... But I'm not satisfied. I'm running on who I am and on my own." Gore denies friction with his White House partner, and aides insist they're not worried about being tied...
...this world, Gore took on his party, President and opposition and often won. Fans cite a host of defeats of old-style liberalism, starting with his successful fight in 1993 to make Clinton focus on debt reduction rather than new spending. He later pushed for welfare reform and NAFTA, both of which had more GOP than Democratic backing...
...focused on building a student center and more housing to combat the lack of social options and overcrowding in houses that has become problematic. In the graduate schools, money should also be spent to improve student life: housing in the law school, for example, is in need of serious reform...
...Boston, Texas Gov. George W. Bush used the phrase "fuzzy math'' four times to disparage the arguments of Vice President Al Gore '69. Of these four instances, one concerned an accusation Gore made about the coverage middle-class senior citizens would receive under Bush's Medicare reform plan, and the other three addressed claims that Bush's tax reform plan includes disproprotionately large benefits for the wealthy. In addition, Bush used similar dismissive phrases such as "phony numbers'' three times. Curiously enough, though, out of all of these incidents, in only one case did Bush actually dispute the particular numbers...
Following a curriculum reform approved last spring, the course, formally titled Government 10, "Introduction to Political Thought," will no longer be required of department concentrators starting with the current first-year class...