Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just in case [Harvard] hasn't heard us, we are going to ask Harvard one more time to agree to a University-wide policy agreement," said HUCTW Director Bill Jaeger. "We have drawn [a contract] up and signed...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton latched on to a piece of the GOP's Contract With America Monday by endorsing legislation that gives adoptive parents a $5,000 tax credit and penalizes states that discourage interracial adoptions. White House spokesman Mike McCurry denied that the President was co-opting a Republican idea and said that identifying ways to help prospective adoptive parents overcome administrative obstacles has been a goal since the President entered office. But in wooing moderate Republicans, Clinton risks alienating a core of black constituents that oppose interracial adoptions. Opponents, such as the National Association of Black Social Workers...
...supposed" motivation behind past academic racism and present-day scholarly racial prejudice remains the same: protecting the United States (i.e., white Americans and some Asian groups) from the degenerate effects which would stem or have stemmed from letting blacks and Latinos into the body politic and social contract. Mansfield, Herrnstein, Murray and D'Souza argue that the academic rigors of society and Americans' competitiveness is decreasing because of the large number of undesirables and unqualifieds entering universities and jobs all around the country at the expense of bright whites and Asians. The argument reminds one of the segregationist platform...
...basic storyline is easy enough. American professor Michael Padovic (Malkovich) needs but a few more documents to prove the gist of his thesis that Shakespeare was of Spanish origin, not British. Supposedly, the archives of the convent of Arrabida contain the marriage contract of Jacques Perez, the man Padovic claims is the true Shakespeare--"Jacques Perez," when mangled into English, could conceivably sound like Shakespeare...
...states to set limits on awards and took away consumers' best weapon against large corporations. The bill had passed both houses of Congress, but proponents did not have enough votes to assure an override. Republicans had pushed hard for the bill, one of the elements of the GOP's Contract With America, which they said would lower prices of many goods and services by cutting the insurance and litigation costs of manufacturers. As Clinton vetoed the measure, Bob Dole cried foul and charged that the President, whose campaign received $2.5 million dollars from lawyers and law firms last year...