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...time 15% became his battle cry in August. He could have built on his critical 1983 participation in the commission that saved Social Security by speaking forcefully about the difficult choices necessary to ensure that it and Medicare will be available in the future. He could, in sum, have run so as to inoculate himself against the charge that he was no better than Clinton, about whom he had said, "No one knows what the President really believes...
...City Council spent $50,000 on the 150th anniversary celebration, which was approved in the April city budget. That sum was "less than what they spent in 1946," after adjusting for inflation, according to Lombardi
...City Council spent $50,000 on the 150th anniversary celebration, which was approved in the April city budget. That sum was "less than what they spent in 1946," after adjusting for inflating, according to Lombardi
...have more than doubled in four years, to nearly 11%. If nothing is done, that percentage is likely to double again in five years. "It's tragic but not surprising," says Rosalind Branningan of Drug Strategies, an antidrug research group. "In many schools, putting up posters is the sum of drug education. The few programs that do work use a host of proven methods and involve rigorous, normative teaching," which means getting kids to realize that most of their peers are not doing...
...embracing answer as to whether it will work. The central themes of the about-to-be law are clear enough. There will be no more guarantee of a federal check to poor people for as long as they may need it. Instead, Washington will make block, or lump-sum, grants for each state to distribute to the poor (along with some state funds) under guidelines intended to prod state and local authorities to prod the clients into finding jobs: generally a two-year limit on payments for any one stretch of time, and five years' lifetime for those who drift...