Word: failings
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Since 1960 the illegitimacy rate has skyrocketed from five percent to more than 25 percent. In many poor urban areas the percentage is well over 50 percent and growing. A welfare system that does not address the growing problem of illegitimacy is bound to fail. Yet the current system not only ignores illegitimacy, it actually contributes to the problem by encouraging single-motherhood. Since only unwed mothers can receive benefits under most government programs, the system discourages marriage and encourages teenagers who want financial independence to get pregnant...
...this war, the G.O.P.'s first weapon is the much-talked-about "train wreck"--the shutdown of government operations that could occur if Congress and the President fail to agree on 13 new spending bills by Oct. 1, the first year's installment toward balancing the budget. But even if both sides can avoid that crack-up, which they probably will, the Republicans have started threatening a far bigger disaster: unless the President signs on to the G.O.P. schedule for balancing the budget, the Republicans are threatening to allow the U.S. to default on its debts, with all the ensuing...
...could be no certainty about this one. "If there isn't full compliance," said Holbrooke, "the U.S. will urge immediate resumption by NATO of the air attacks." President Bill Clinton backed him up, saying the Serbs should have no doubt that "NATO will resume the air strikes if they fail to keep their commitments." But Karadzic vowed, "We will withdraw our weaponry," and said it would be hauled outside the U.N.-declared 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. The pledge was confirmed by General Dragomir Milosevic, the commander of rebel Serb forces around the capital...
...million low-income Americans. At a New York press conference, Gingrich proposed funding Medicaid through block grants and insisted the plan would "deliver better care with better services at less cost." Unlike its higher-end cousin, Medicare, Medicaid already depends on vast state involvement, and the bill would likely fail without governors' support. "No one in Washington suggests block-granting Medicare," says TIME's Tumulty. "It would scare to many powerful constituencies. Medicaid, by contrast, has no powerful lobby...
...Republicans must deliver on their promise to bring the budget into balance or face an even angrier electorate. And the Finance panel is where much of that legislation comes from. The stakes for the g.o.p. are sim ply too high for the new chairman to be allowed to fail. Roth acknowledges he must rely on majority leader Bob Dole. "I would certainly work closely with the leadership,'' he says. "Dole in particular...