Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clinton's reform plans may be in for some rough weather. Earlier this year, at the Governor's urging, the general assembly enacted new education measures. Among them: a choice plan that will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state, fines of up to $50 for parents who fail to show up for parent-teacher conferences and a minimum teacher salary of $16,000. But legislators, fearing a voter backlash, refused to pass a 1 cents boost in the sales tax to underwrite the package. Determined to carry through with his program, the Governor has been...
...already has uncovered several Bush Administration scandals that it is just waiting to unload on an unsuspecting public. For those of you who can't wait to hear it from Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer on the new "Primetime Live," here are some of the scandals that will allow President Bush to take his true place among the recent set of Republican chief executives...
...incident is really so slight, any person's objection should not cause such offense. Those who are being questioned should have the generosity to allow another the objection...
...raises, consumer goods and political reform carrying no official price tag but estimated at $8 billion. In a dramatic bow to the intense nationalism of the Baltic republics, which were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, the Supreme Soviet, led by Gorbachev, approved a resolution endorsing plans to allow Lithuania and Estonia to manage their own economies freely, outside the control of central planners in Moscow. Baltic economists say they intend to develop Western-style market economies similar to those in Scandinavia, based on light industry and agriculture and free to sell or barter with other Soviet republics...
Hochschild thinks "pro-family" legislation is needed, not to promote school prayers and cut off birth-control funds, as in the cant of the Reagan years, but to equalize women's wages and provide family leave for both sexes. Tax breaks would go to firms that allow job sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls...