Word: bakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prolabor. Democratic elders are warily assessing public reaction. Potential presidential candidates, such as Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, are already sniping at Tsongas. Instead of more tax breaks for greedy businessmen, they complain, why not more of them for the middle class? Tsongas labels such criticism myopic. Only business can bake a bigger...
...about that curry lentil bake...
Meghan S. Brown, 11, was helping at a bake sale table to raise money for the Harvard Hillel Children's School. Brown, who said she trains for such events by selling baked goods on the street in front of her Cambridge home, said she was pleased with the festivities. "We have lots of money, and we've only been here 15 or 20 minutes," Brown said early in the afternoon...
Under Kern's energetic guidance, Tiensuu and the rest of the class organized a bake sale in their small village of Fagervik and raised enough money to buy four hectares (10 acres) of rain forest in Costa Rica's spectacular Monteverde Reserve. Their campaign gave birth to Barnens Regnskog, or the Children's Rain Forest, a nonprofit organization whose young supporters in several thousand Swedish schools have bought 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of jungle with the $1.5 million they have raised so far. Schoolchildren in Germany, Japan and the U.S. have followed suit. In appreciation, the Monteverde Conservation...
...Honselman, a school-board vice president in Illinois' Casey-Westfield district. "Meanwhile, we don't have advanced-placement classes." He and his wife are part of a class action demanding that the state equalize school funding. "With three children in the schools," says Honselman, "we've tried everything from bake sales to raffles to raise funds. But we can't raise enough." Last week Texas failed for a third time to come up with a court-ordered plan to redistribute funds. The state supreme court has threatened to cut off all school funding, or else will enact its own plan...