Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospects for a substantial increase in federal education funding were dim, however. For weeks, Bush and his aides had rejected the notion that an education President should spend more on education. A senior White House official pointed out that federal funds account for only about 7% of total spending on education, and argued that much of the money is spent so inefficiently that "we could eliminate most of it and nobody would notice." Such arguments moved New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a liberal Democrat, to retort that waste and inefficiency never prevented the Administration from spending on defense...
...start and were slow to heal, a phenomenon largely ignored by the mental-health community. The visceral sense of loss, psychologists suggest, even in the case of infant adoptions, is an abiding , wound, too little understood. Adoptees represent 2% of the U.S. population, yet by some estimates they account for one-quarter of the patients in U.S. psychological treatment facilities. "There are many issues that are particularly critical for adoptive families -- issues of compatibility, intellectual mismatches, personality conflicts," says Ruth McRoy, a University of Texas professor who has studied emotional disturbance in adopted adolescents. "Some children feel that being adopted...
RESTORING AN IRA DEDUCTION. We spend more than we produce and fail to save nearly enough to remain competitive. Restoring the Individual Retirement Account incentive, as House Democrats proposed, would nudge the average family to spend a little less and save a little more -- just what the doctor ordered. More saving and less borrowing would also tend to lower interest rates, which would benefit rich and poor alike...
...some estimates, these special-needs children account for about 60% of all those available for adoption. They make up the large majority of the youngsters now handled by the public adoption agencies of most states. Yet while there may be dozens of couples bidding for every healthy white infant, only about one-third of the approximately 36,000 available special-needs kids will be taken in any given year. Some of the rest can be found in hospitals as "boarder babies" -- left behind at birth by addicted or otherwise incapable mothers. Others are crammed into group facilities...
...entertainment industry calls "software" (movies, video and recorded music). Built on chairman and founder Akio Morita's devotion to technical innovation, Sony is diversifying into cultural products as the patriarch, 68, gradually hands over control of the company to president Norio Ohga, 59, an accomplished musician. While electronic goods account for 84% of Sony's current sales, the addition of Columbia will give the company a 60-40 split between hardware and software. Says Gordon Crawford, a senior vice president at Capital Research, a Los Angeles investment firm: "Sony has seen , that the people who own the software make more...