Word: contract
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...scrapped the seniority system, to install as chairmen members who had proved their fealty, and then he packed the key committees with his acolytes, to make sure the chairmen behaved. He even required all members of the Appropriations Committee to sign an oath of loyalty to the Contract with America as a condition of serving. And he abolished three committees and 25 subcommittees and sliced staffs by a third, which made it harder for rivals to create their own mini-empires...
GESO is made up of approximately 700 teaching assistants (TAs), a minority of the graduate students at the university. These TAs, most of whom study the non-government-funded humanities, see their teaching positions as jobs. They would like to unionize and even take part in the contract negotiations of Yale's existing unions...
Letting market forces rule satisfies the cost cutters in the state, but it also helps the patients. The Arizona program does not permit would-be providers to select only the healthiest patients, a practice called cherry picking in the health-care business. If providers want a contract, they must be prepared to take on the care of the disabled, the elderly, and women and children...
...important part of the cash-suction operation is the multitude of Contract with America "coalitions,'' which are groups of lobbyists who raise funds to press members of the House for passage of elements of the Contract. "You have coalition creep,'' says Mark Isakowitz, a leader of the Coalition for America's Future, which pushes tax cuts. "You could spend most of your time going from one coalition meeting to another." These are coordinated for Gingrich by Representative John Boehner. His Thursday Group, a round table of representatives from the various coalitions, meets every week at 11 a.m. in a room...
...centerpieces of the Contract with America, the campaign platform on which the vast majority of Republican congressional candidates ran, was a balanced budget amendment that would ensure a balanced federal budget by the year 2002. In surveys done before the election, this item along with term limitations proved the most popular among the American public. Yet now, only a year later, public support for the Republican balanced budget plan has drastically eroded, the result of Democratic attempts to scare and confuse many voters through sensationalism and half-truths...