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...speech included a pitch for Clinton's"domestic G.I. Bill" proposal for student loans.Clinton said the New Covenant creates "an Americain which the doors of college are thrown open onceagain to the sons and daughters of stenographersand steelworkers. We'll say, everybody can borrowthe money to go to college. But you must do yourpart. You must pay it back from your paychecks, orbetter yet, by going back home and serving yourcommunities...
...perhaps the evening's most emotional moment,Gore described in detail the experience of seeinghis son, Albert, struck by a car and thrown 30feet three years...
...wages and work conditions. Most other freight companies ceased operations, claiming that their many interconnections made it impossible for them to work without CSX. The unions countered that it was a lockout. The disagreement involves unions representing only about 20,000 workers, but 200,000 other rail workers were thrown out of work, and hundreds of thousands more were affected by the shutdown...
...tragedy or bad jokes. The country is haunted by the division between north and south, by the grim persistence of terrorism, by divisive personal issues such as birth control and abortion, and by recurrent scandals. Charles Haughey, the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) for nine of the past 13 years, was thrown out of office in January when one scandal too many surfaced...
...past 10 years. But he insisted that he had to weigh the value of environmental regulations against their economic impact. Said the President: "I have some responsibility for a cleaner environment, and also a responsibility to families in this country who want to work, some of whom can be thrown out of work if we go for too costly an answer to some of these problems. And I'm not going to forget the American family. And if they don't understand that in Rio, too bad." To Bush's critics, that is the kind of us- against-the-world...