Word: edwardes
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Education officials and many on Capitol Hill were quick to praise the reappointment. "Clearly, this is a man who shares our views about the importance of education," said Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat. Lamar Haynes of the National Education Association, a union representing 1.6 million schoolteachers, considered the selection a "hopeful sign that perhaps Mr. Bush will fulfill his campaign promise to become the 'education President...
...Canadian memory -- a battle that at one point it seemed he might lose. Mulroney's Conservatives were returned to power, taking 169 seats in the 295-seat House of Commons. The opposition Liberals, led by former Prime Minister John Turner, 59, won 83 seats, while the New Democrats, under Edward Broadbent, 52, gained...
Washington lawmakers readily recognize the populist sentiments aroused by the spectacle. "What's going on is corporate cannibalism," says Congressman Edward Markey. "We have to ask whether it is in the national interest to allow companies to go so heavily into debt." As chairman of a House subcommittee that covers finance, the Massachusetts Democrat will play a key role in drafting any legislation to curb LBO excesses when Congress reconvenes next year. But lawmakers are uncertain how to limit buyouts, or even if they should...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
Written by Edward Albee...