Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congressional testimony last Thursday, Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) President Will Marshall--the major idea machine for Gov. Bill Clinton--suggested a Police Corps program to exchange college funds for police service, a civilian version of the G.I. bill, expanding the earned income tax credit, raising work-discouraging wage limits for Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children and contracting out to private companies devoted to finding jobs for welfare recipients...
Wofford envisions creating a "Peace Corps to America," a youth service program for the nation's parks and cities modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Wofford's own Peace Corps. He hopes to enlist upwards of one-third of America's youth...
...complement the training sessions, representatives from Washington government agencies came to Cambridge to recruit Radcliffe students for jobs in the civilian sectors of the war effort...
Equally important, antimilitary forces found an inspirational leader in Chamlong Srimuang, a former general who quit the army in 1986 to run for governor of Bangkok. A Buddhist ascetic, he was re-elected in 1990 and ran a notably clean and democratic administration. He put together a civilian coalition that scored heavily in parliamentary elections in March...
...however. Many Thais agree with Sukhumbhand Paribatra, a political-military expert at Chulalongkorn University, that "what we are witnessing is the military's last hurrah. The last few days' violence was its dying gasp." But he adds that he "can't say when, how or at what cost" a civilian-led democracy will prevail. In fact, the death watch on military rule, if it really is that, may well drag on through weeks, months or even years of tension, turmoil, renewed demonstrations and possibly even more bloodshed...