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...seeking redemption through reimbursement flooded government offices with calls. Most wanted to know if they owed money for their baby sitter or their housekeeper or the kid who mowed the lawn. In West Palm Beach, Florida, a perplexed person walked into an IRS office and asked for the "Zoe Baird Package" of forms. "That's all people are talking about," says Nancy Ransom, director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University. "This is not just a problem for the poor, the rich or the middle class. This is a problem for everyone...
...Poor Zoe Baird. Her name has already entered the language as a synonym for trouble. Along with "the Gary Hart syndrome," signifying compulsive womanizing, we now have "the Zoe Baird problem," meaning child-care infractions. Its chief usage is in the accusative: "Do you have a Zoe Baird problem?" That was the question that brought down Kimba Wood as a candidate for Attorney General (even though her answer was "No"). It was also the question that helped pluck the childless and unmarried Janet Reno from relative obscurity to become the President's nominee for the job. No kids, no nanny...
...domestic tribulations of most working women, and for that matter working men, are more like Baird's than Reno's. Two-thirds of American women with school-age children are in the labor force and require some sort of day- care arrangement. Nearly 60% of married men with kids have working wives. In the absence of the kind of subsidized day-care systems that exist in many European countries, most American families have become participants in an underground economy. For the wealthy, that may mean employing a live-in nanny, but not withholding taxes or asking to see a green...
...pundits were already writing us off. They were saying we weren't ready for the big leagues. Gays, Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood. And then lately, Lord Owen on Bosnia and Colin Powell's retirement. Seemed like an unending streak of bad news...
Welcoming all diners was a huge tapestry reading "Chris Baird: The Weapon," and listing his up-to-date season statistics...