Word: graduall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wisconsin pilot program to take effect in 1995, which will require welfare recipients in two counties to find full-time work or a job-training program within 30 days after they enter the welfare rolls. Cash benefits will end entirely after two years. Georgia has just adopted a more gradual measure that refuses benefits to any able-bodied recipients who turn down a minimum-wage job. But since its exemptions include anyone caring for a child under 14, among many others, it will end up applying to less than about 6% of the roughly 120,000 adult Georgians on welfare...
...those watching from beyond Russia's borders, Zhirinovsky's improbable but disquieting suggestions of "new Hiroshimas" and "Chernobyls" were enough to force a swift rethink of strategy. Last week Germans modified their enthusiastic calls for an eastward expansion of NATO, pushing instead for a "gradual and controlled" opening in order to assuage Russia's paranoid generals. In Washington the dominant refrain was to urge the U.S. Administration both to reduce its personal identification with Yeltsin and to broaden its contacts within Russia. And Westerners everywhere read the returns as proof positive that Yeltsin's personal popularity did not translate into...
...long ago, means testing was a notion embraced mostly by small political journals and policy wonks swimming in think tanks. But respectability came as the bipartisan cut-the-deficit Concord Coalition and investment banker Pete Peterson pushed schemes that would trim federal subsidies in gradual steps for families earning above about $40,000 a year. The new mood is reflected by Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who declared recently, "Means testing in selected areas is an idea whose time has come...
...heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby's diary, which records experiences, the personalities she encounters and her gradual self-understanding as she ekes out a life and learns to "survive with her soul intact...
...gradual transformation from the much-maligned fish pizziola era to a more palatable and healthful dining experience continues this year, according to Harvard Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry...