Word: harshness
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...tens of millions of new jobs in the last two decades. In that same period, joblessness among inner-city blacks has reached catastrophic proportions. Yet in this presidential election year the disappearance of work in the ghetto is not on either the Democratic or the Republican agenda. There is harsh talk about work instead or welfare but no talk of where to find...
...Dole could have run as the hardheaded but scarcely harsh politician his 35-year congressional career proved him to be. He could probably have won the votes of more women by sticking to his call for "tolerance" in the G.O.P.'s abortion plank. He could have avoided the tax-cut scheme that colored him as just another pandering pol, even though he seemed genuinely to have been converted to supply-side theory by the time 15% became his battle cry in August. He could have built on his critical 1983 participation in the commission that saved Social Security by speaking...
...Tuesday, Lebed did what he always does when confronted by uncertainty. He attacked. The Security Council, which he heads, expressed doubt that Yeltsin had either written or personally signed such a harsh new order: the name on the document was just a stamped facsimile. The President, who was reported to have left for a two-day "vacation inspection trip" at a lakefront spa, maintained silence...
Moreover, Congress had stripped out of its new welfare bill many of the harsh provisions that had provoked the President to veto two earlier versions. The decisive breakthrough began in early June, when two obscure G.O.P. Congressmen--John Ensign, a freshman from Las Vegas, and Dave Camp, a third termer from Michigan--conferred after a meeting of Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Says Ensign: "We both looked at each other and said, 'This is crazy!' " What was crazy, they thought, was a decision of the G.O.P. congressional leadership to keep welfare reform combined in a single...
...will happen to those who have surpassed their five-year limit? Too bad? It seems just too easy for the government to throw out loose terms like time limits and gainful employment in the name of reform and cutting the deficit by $60 billion in the process when the harsh realities of these so-called reforms are higher infant mortality, hunger, homelessness, higher crime, violence and despair...