Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent high-profile child care proposals with a good chance of jumping the legislative hurdles of Capitol Hill is the Alliance for Better Child Care (ABC) Bill, which sponsors say should go before Congress for a vote in mid-June...
...Last year when I introduced the ABC bill, it was the first time since Nixon vetoed the Child Care Provision Act that a piece of child care legislation has been introduced in Congress," says Rep. Dale E. Kildee (D-Mich.), co-sponsor of the ABC Bill...
...passed, the ABC Bill will allot $2.5 billion to improving the quality of child care, while making it more affordable to parents, Kildee says. The bill was written by a group of 100 organizations, with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) at its helm...
Something is abroad in the games people play, or about to go abroad, anyway. Suddenly the globe is ready to play ball, with the Soviet Union leading off. In their hearts, the Soviets probably still think they invented baseball, or lapta, an innocent steppes-child that supposedly predates both British rounders and Tommy John. But the bench jockeying has quieted considerably since the Reds dropped an April game to the U.S. Naval Academy, 21-1, and their coach was heard to mutter, "Throw to second, not first. Second is the one in the middle...
...play Henry Jones as a kind of Sir Richard Burton," Connery says. "There was so much behind him and so many hidden elements in his life." In the beginning Henry speaks to his long-lost son slowly, with wide eyes and grand gestures, as if Indy were a child in need of gentle remedial education. "I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father," Connery says of Henry (remember, the Jones family hails from Utah). "And have fun I did -- so much so that I told Harrison, 'If you give me all the jokes...