Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than sufficient for Thatcher to pursue her "unfinished revolution" in reshaping the political, economic and social fabric of Britain. When she was first elected in 1979, the country was in such economic peril that only 2 1/2 years earlier it had sought a bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund. Today Britain is a leading creditor nation with a vibrant economy, a rising currency and a booming stock market that soared anew in response to the Tory victory. Thatcher, says London's Sunday Times, has brought about Britain's "biggest transformation since the Industrial Revolution...
...businesses to provide day care. If elected, he vows, he will set up a center for White House employees as an example to other employers. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, who has established the country's most comprehensive state-supported day-care system, would like to see the Federal Government fund similar programs throughout...
...poverty, but it means putting children into day care, which is unaffordable. "The typical cost of full-time care is about $3,000 a year for one child, or one-third of the poverty-level income for a family of three," says Helen Blank of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington. As a result, many poor mothers leave their young children alone for long periods or entrust them to siblings only slightly older. Others simply give up on working...
...Francisco has adopted another innovative approach. It requires developers of major new commercial office and hotel space to include an on- site child-care center or pay $1 per sq. ft. of space to the city's child- care fund. The state of California is spending $319 million this year on child-care subsidies for 100,000 children. It also funds a network of 72 resource and referral agencies...
...President's remarks were one of several dramatic expressions in the capital last week of the intense national debate over a key issue involving AIDS control: mandatory testing. Reagan drew boos and hisses during a May 31 speech at a private AIDS fund-raising dinner when he urged "routine" testing of inmates in federal prisons and patients in Veterans Administration hospitals. He also asked that all foreigners seeking residence visas be screened for exposure to the virus and strongly encouraged states to test marriage-license applicants...