Word: detroit
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...from those who provide it. It is about cruelty. But when we are cruel to those on welfare, we are, primarily, being cruel to mothers and children. Thirty-nine percent of the children under 18 in New York City are on welfare. The number rises to 69 percent in Detroit, for a devastingly high national average, which reveals that 25 percent of all children by the time they reach the age of 18 will have been on welfare; on welfare for an average of not two or five years, but for an astounding 13. These are children who have...
Unfortunately, the essential Dole--a candidate too often disengaged even from his own policy prescriptions--re-emerged at an unscripted education forum outside Detroit. At one point, Dole missed a questioner's thrust entirely but smiled goofily as Michigan Governor John Engler preposterously declared Dole's response "right on." Sensing disaster, Engler moved to end the torture and asked Dole to "wrap up." Unprepared, Dole said he would "yield my time" to others in the audience. When Engler tried again later, Dole blandly read from a crib sheet and won only tepid applause from the carefully screened G.O.P. crowd...
...they never pulled Livingstone's personnel file and so didn't see his boastful resume, which apparently went in for some title inflation: no one at Clinton-Gore '92 seems to recall a division of counterevent operations. The Chicken George operation, in fact, was cooked up in a Detroit tavern by two unemployed young men, "civilians" unaffiliated with the campaign. Strategist James Carville fell in love with the idea, and field workers like Livingstone began scouting for chicken suits. But when the White House didn't come clean on Feathergate, the Republicans saw an opening. But they tripped over another...
...Bill of Rights and its implications, that point was stressed. To allow the Net to carry immoral language and art that are frowned on by polite society is not only incorrect but infringes on the rights of others, regardless of what some idiotic judges may say! FRANK WEBSTER Detroit...
Workers at the Detroit Free Press went on strike more than 11 months ago. Over 2,000 workers are still on strike, protesting such changes as the institution of individual merit pay and a cap to overtime...