Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...White House-supported effort to further water down the Democrats' approach, Congress finally settled on a plan. Members voted 265 to 145 to establish a system that will provide $27 billion over five years to poor parents through income-tax credits and direct subsidies. The bill requires states to set health standards at day-care centers, expands Head Start programs for poor children and provides school- based care for up to 10 million so-called latchkey kids who would otherwise go unattended after school. In a compromise with conservatives, Democrats agreed to require states to issue vouchers that parents...
...A.N.C., De Klerk plans to meet with the leaders of the country's six self-governing black homelands and with the chairmen of the ministers' councils of the "colored" (mixed race) and Indian chambers to discuss "the structuring of the process of negotiation." The talks with the A.N.C. will set the ground rules for future bargaining on majority rule that will presumably include other nonwhite groups...
...with Mandela, perhaps as soon as this week, to try to restore peace to Natal. But a rally to be addressed by the two black leaders was called off, and few hold out much hope for the talks. Last week Buthelezi dismissed the power of the A.N.C. as a set of "myths that have now been exploded." Obviously miffed that he was not to be included in De Klerk's session with the A.N.C., the Zulu chief predicted that at the first sign of trouble the A.N.C. would "pack its bags and go home." The comment does not bode well...
...sacred books imparting enlightenment. To their chagrin, they discover that in order to secure their prize, they must grease the palms of Buddha's disciples. Buddha himself is rather condescending. Paradise has turned out to be less than perfect and more than a little disconcerting. What was it they set out to find, and why is it yet to be found? Even as their numbers and their influence expand, Asian Americans are pondering those very questions...
Meanwhile, the Church of England is fast fading as any kind of force in the nation's life. The church's regular worshipers constitute a paltry 2.4% of the population. Only 29% of England's babies are baptized as Anglicans. The decline had set in long before Runcie's reign, but he proved powerless to stop it. With England becoming a mission field, the future may lie with the Evangelical wing, which runs some thriving parishes and is gaining the majority among priests...