Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is Clinton's eighth drunk driving public service announcement...
...Doing something about it, according to the NAS, means creating some sort of federal regulatory agency, a kind of FAA for the practice of medicine. The academy carries significant weight on the Hill, and should expect White House support as well since the proposals mirror portions of President Clinton's proposed Patients' Bill of Rights. Which means the feds could soon be making sure that "First do no harm" is more than just a physician's motto...
...first few months of parenthood and sweeten the prospect of staying home with a baby. The proposal would provide state subsidies to new parents, who would collect at least part of their salaries while taking time off to care for a newborn or an adopted child. President Clinton's plan, which is essentially a bulked-up version of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, would leave the particulars of payments and time limits to the states...
...will states afford this magnanimity? Easily, says Clinton: They will take advantage of the booming economy and bulging payroll tax coffers to shift funding to the parental leave program from money set aside for temporary unemployment benefits. If the money comes through and states resist the urge to balk at Clinton's decree, this proposal has a lot going for it. "This is great news for anyone who's part of a family or plans to start one," says TIME contributor Amy Dickinson. "A lot of very important emotional work between a child and its parents takes place very early...
Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment...