Word: abc
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...result, child care has become a hot-button political issue, and both Democrats and Republicans are scrambling to cater to the concerns of working parents. Last week the Senate approved an ambitious Democratic plan, dubbed the Act for Better Child Care, or ABC, that would vastly expand the Federal Government's role, at a cost of $8.75 billion over the next five years. The bill would authorize $1.75 billion each year to help low-income parents pay for child care. Parents would receive 70% of the funds directly; the remaining 30% would go to the states to expand day-care...
...provision sure to draw a legal test on separation of church and state, the bill would issue vouchers to parents for use in day-care centers that offer religious instruction. To win the support of Republican Senators, ABC would create a tax credit for the costs of care and child health insurance, adding to the federal deficit as much as $10.3 billion in lost tax revenues in five years...
Last night, ABC News reported that unidentified sources told the network that Justice Harry Blackman, author of the 1973 opinion of Roe v. Wade, had requested more time to complete a "bitter" opinion in opposition to one by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But this report did not say which way the court would rule. There was no answer at the home of the court's press officer...
Beijing's agents shocked the West by "stealing" raw footage of a man-on- the-street interview that ABC News had transmitted by satellite to the U.S. Executives at ABC said they did not know how the Chinese obtained the interview, but conceded that surveillance experts could have intercepted the network's original satellite transmission. ABC's feeds are now scrambled...
Local authorities are having no problem recruiting thousands of neighborhood informants and auxiliary police to revive the once pervasive system of spying. Last Monday evening, when an ABC news crew went into a private home to film a family watching Chinese television reports, a neighbor notified the local police. Within minutes, security officials rounded up the journalists and detained them for two hours. The next day the crew's correspondent and producer left Shanghai after warnings that covering the news without permission was "dangerous...