Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Delores Mayes, 28, whose children were seized and placed in foster homes when her crack habit got out of hand. Faced with losing them for good, Mayes entered a detox program for six months but had nowhere to take them when she emerged. That is when the church, under contract to the county, stepped in: its outreach workers found her housing and furniture. She reconciled with the children's father, a former crack addict himself, who secured two steady jobs, as a fish-market clerk and a custodian...
...picture and could see the importance of going into space with the goal of man's landing on the moon. Apparently House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Bob Dole don't get the picture, as evidenced by their efforts to make cuts in the meager NASA budget in the Contract with America. A picture in the book The Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan, shows the earth as a tiny point of light that is barely visible among a sea of similar points of light, many of which are more visible and much brighter. Of course, no evidence of habitation...
...what should have been Gingrich's finest moment, the Speaker faces the prospect of seeing many of his legislative dreams collapse. Term limits, legal reform and a tougher crime bill are dead; tax cuts and welfare reform are in danger. Now many Republicans worry that the Contract with America's crown jewel, a balanced budget by the year 2002, could be put off until after the election...
...believe that there is anyone who is particularly fond of divorce. Nor is marriage a contract to be treated lightly. Two people who choose to marry should intend to stick with it for life. But the experiences of a lifetime can alter a situation dramatically. If a woman discovers that her face has been permanently damaged by a violent husband, should she try to work it out to maintain the institution of marriage? I am being slightly unfair in this point, since both Lat and the Pope concede that physical separation may be necessary in the case of abusive relationships...
...would be disastrous if we were cut," he said in an interview yesterday. "For 50 years, there has been a contract with universities to fund research. You can't just turn off these kinds of operations on a dime...