Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard, whose policy toward alcohol on campushad been termed liberal in the past, has beenforced by the state to crack down on underagedrinking in recent years...
...Without AFDC I wouldn't be here today. I'mjust glad I'm not out on the streets right now,selling crack like a lot of the other kids I know.I hope the government appreciates how important aprogram it is," he said...
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee pressed the Clinton Administration to take the first crack at avolatile Medicare overhaul, but Democrats weren't biting. At a hearing today, Committee chairman Bill Archer (R-Tx.) accused the White House of holding the $175 billion Medicare program "hostage" to its insistence on broader health reforms. But Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, testifying before the panel, fired back by suggesting the GOP was simply exaggerating Medicare's fiscal problems as an excuse to slash $300 billion by 2002 in order to fund tax cuts and balance the budget...
...where the members of Congress are eager to show that they are doing something to prevent future outrages, the omnibus counterterrorism act of 1995 is now getting serious attention. Proposed by the Clinton Administration in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing, it would, among its many provisions, crack down on fund-raising activities in the U.S. that benefit organizations identified as terrorist and make some deportations easier. Though it was introduced in February and had bipartisan support--many of its ideas were first broached by Republican administrations--the bill was a low-profile initiative until the bombing. Within...
...deepest fissures were those within us. Whether you went or not, that war put a crack in you because of the impossibility of finding an untainted response to it. If you protested the war, you couldn't help worrying about the bafflement and pain you were causing those in danger, and their families. How did you make peace with the fact that, however unintentionally, you were encouraging a hard, often murderous enemy who was doing his best to kill boys you'd grown up with? If you went, you had to notice that the government we were trying to save...