Word: expands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While universal care seemed a pipe dream when Sen. Bob Kerrey first injected it into the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas soon jumped on the bandwagon. Support for universal health care, in one form or another, differentiated the Arkansasan from President Bush, who supported tax incentives to expand coverage but wouldn't guarantee everyone a health plan. Polls show that health care stuck out more than any other issue in the minds of Clinton voters...
...discuss homosexuality in the classroom, most of the change is taking place at the city or county level. After a 1989 federal study showed that one-third of adolescents who kill themselves are young people struggling with their sexual orientation, school officials in Virginia's Fairfax County decided to expand their wide-ranging family-life education program. "We had a moral obligation to combat a devastating trend," says Gerald Newberry, coordinator of the county's family-life education programs. "We needed to communicate to our kids that people are different, and that we don't choose our sexual feelings -- they...
...also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness as her international career, already robust, continues to expand. Everyone wants Bartoli...
...Houston next spring, her American debut; Don Giovanni in a heavyweight Salzburg production conducted by Barenboim in 1994; the Met's Cosi fan tutte the following season. Bartoli is happily caught up in her repertory, but her fans, as well as many opera managers, already ache to see her expand it. Why not the big-money operas -- Verdi and, above all, Carmen...
Bush could have opted for something less dramatic. The day before Thanksgiving, his advisers gave him three possibilities: expand the U.N. peacekeeping force by adding 3,500 troops to the 500 Pakistanis hunkered down at the Mogadishu airport; provide air and sea support for a U.N. intervention force; or send in a U.S. division under U.N. auspices -- the Pentagon's surprising proposal. Bush went straight for option three, so quickly that the meeting lasted only an hour. "The number of deaths was going up," explains a senior official in Washington, "and the number of people we were reaching was going...