Word: georgetown
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Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University...
...among white men, and black family incomes are, on the average, 56% of white family incomes. It is hard to keep any family together under such financial pressures. Fathers, feeling defeated and useless, drift away. "The strong growth in female-headed households," says Norton, a law professor at Georgetown University, "is the central problem in black families and why poverty is so lasting." Teen-age mothers too often produce children who become teen-age mothers. Says John Bayne, a Washington social services official: "It is harder to break the cycle for kids who have only known staying home, watching...
...dispassionate observer. When D'Aubuisson's request for a U.S. visa was denied last November, the Senator loudly complained. Deborah DeMoss, a Helms aide who has visited El Salvador numerous times in the past year, tried to arrange a speaking engagement for D'Aubuisson at Georgetown University last January...
Critics also charge that Richardson, who has lived and worked in Washington D.C. for 15 years, would not adequately serve local interests. A recent editorial in the Worcester Telegram dryly suggested, "If Richardson can tear himself away from the Georgetown circuit for Massachusetts, let him pour his energies into rebuilding the Republican party here. Let him throw his support behind an announced Republican [Shamie] who has a realistic change now of election to the Senate...
...figures have spawned protests from supporters of the Reagan tax cuts, including such leading supply-side theorists as Paul Craig Roberts, an economics professor at Georgetown University, and George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty and program director of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. They argue that the CBO figures are merely projections based on standard economic models and do not take into account the impact that tax cuts will have on the investment strategies of the wealthy. With tax rates reduced, the supply-siders say, the rich will move away from tax shelters and channel more of their...