Word: anews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ceremonies in 1992, opened the fall of the '92-93 academic year with a call to peace and healing. Neither students nor faculty had been left entirely untouched by the bloodletting which reached its peak the previous spring. Ultimately, there was nothing to do but try to begin things anew...
Taking the bully pulpit anew after a recent speech -- not approved by the White House -- on "corporate welfare," Labor Secretary Robert Reich today warned that many Americans aren't saving enough to maintain their living standard when they retire. "Today's workers will need unprecedented levels of savings to maintain their living standards during those retirement years," Reich told a Senate Finance subcommittee. "But since workers are now earning less and saving less, they'll have less -- especially if retirement itself grows longer." The best solution, he argued, was for employers to increase wages so their workers have enough left...
...Schulhof may be too late to save his own job. "He has a grim future," comments one rival Hollywood studio chief. "He has publicly taken responsibility for Sony's condition, and he is the only human being mentioned in Sony's press release." Sony's Hollywood debacle also raises anew the question of who might succeed Sony chairman Ohga. At 64, Ohga came through coronary bypass surgery, but he has yet to designate an heir...
GRINDING TO A HALT? Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), the chamber's senior Democrat, broke with the Clinton Administration today and urged the postponement of anew global trade accorduntil next year in order to take into account the impact of this month's elections. "I believe it would be a mistake to ignore this political sea change by ramming the GATT through Congress next week without much debate and with no opportunity to amend," Byrd said today. "These are matters that concern every American and should not be decided hurriedly, under the cloud of a lame-duck session." Under...
...aftermath of the shooting, Richard Griffin, the Secret Service agent in charge of presidential security, raised anew the idea of closing off that portion of Pennsylvania Avenue that runs in front of the White House in order to give agents easier control of sightseers. Protests came from all quarters, including Bill Clinton, who said, "I just don't think in a free society you can have the President of the country kind of hiding in the sand and just wall him off in the White House...