Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin: Seeking to retake the high ground on welfare reform from President Clinton, Bob Dole on Tuesday endorsed a five-year time limit on welfare benefits and said states should have the option of requiring mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients. Dole said welfare and other Great Society programs represent the failures of liberalism: "Today, it stands as its greatest shame; a grand failure that has crushed the spirit, destroyed the families and decimated the culture of those who have become enmeshed in its web." Clinton had launched a preemptive strike on Saturday when he announced...
...Faculty of Humanities has chosen to ignore it. This is clearly nothing more than historic revisionism at its very worst and is not in keeping with the spirit of a great university. Perhaps if the Faculty of Humanities took the time to appreciate the traditions they are so fond of snubbing, they would realize just how deplorable their current attitude...
...about the Undergraduate Council. I have always just stayed away from the U.C. because Rudd Coffey has been involved and, well, enough said. But this year, I even picked a candidate I really liked. Yet, in the end Matt Bakal lost to Rob Hyman (who I wasn't that fond of, either); but the fact is I tried to become involved in that arena this year. I took a risk, and I should get an A for effort or a B for a nice...
Those are two things I can't say for a lot of classes I see weighing down the telephone book I call "Courses of Instruction" (and this has nothing to do with courses on white males, of whom I am quite fond...
...Doug Herzog, the new president of Comedy Central, said the network was not picking up the show. Negotiations to devise a new format were unfruitful; two weeks ago, Herzog gave Best Brains, MST3K's production company, permission to try to sell the program elsewhere. The final new episode--a fond savaging of the sluggish sci-fi teen-angst epic Laserblast--will...