Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start, the project will be a long way from fulfilling Clinton's campaign promise "to give every American the right to borrow money for college." The President wants to begin the program this summer with a $15 million demonstration project covering 1,000 underprivileged students. By 1997 spending could grow to $3.4 billion for 100,000 young people. Clinton left the door open for expanding beyond 100,000: "If the demand exceeds the supply, I'll go back to Congress and get some more money...
Sadly, to borrow the words that once appeared on report cards, new studies confirm that Head Start "does not live up to potential." The well-known formula cited by Clinton ("One dollar spent now saves three later") reflects the success of one non-Head Start project at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in the 1960s. The latest investigation of Head Start itself, by the Health and Human Services Department, calls many of the approximately 1,300 Head Start programs that currently serve about 700,000 children poorly run and unsuccessful at providing youngsters with even basic care. Yale Professor...
...might seem a rather dry statistical apocalypse and not exactly imminent; the President cannot really point to any awful calamity likely to strike next week or next year. Similarly, Clinton in his town-hall television appearance last week sketched the joys of deficit reduction: "The United States doesn't borrow so much money. We have more of your tax money to spend on the education of your children, or on developing new jobs, or on health care. We keep interest rates down, and it's easier for you to borrow money in the private sector, so you create more jobs...
...lower its interest yield). Apparently bond traders, who usually do not trust Democrats, think that Clinton really will whack down the federal deficit while stimulating the economy. If they expected the deficit to rise, they would bid up interest rates, crippling the ability of consumers and businessmen to borrow...
...special person," suggests Walsh, romantically. He rejects the idea that a woman or a man can be in love with two people at the same time. Each person carries in his or her mind a unique subliminal guide to the ideal partner, a "love map," to borrow a term coined by sexologist John Money of Johns Hopkins University...