Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often the Secretary seems politically naive. In January, after testifying before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Cavazos asked if he could stay and hear the other witnesses. Congressional veterans were stunned. Said a committee staffer: "It looked as if he had nothing better to do than sit and listen to people read statements." Cavazos is also handicapped by his lack of familiarity with elementary- and secondary- education issues. In April, for example, he incorrectly told reporters that Minnesota provides transportation across district lines as part of its "choice" plan, which will soon allow parents to select schools...
...business-backed lobbying group: "Yellowstone is Wyoming's crown jewel. Tourism was seriously impacted throughout the state." Responding to pressure from business interests in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, the Interior Department has decreed that this year every fire in Yellowstone started by natural means, as well as by human carelessness, will be strenuously suppressed...
...conflagration was devastating to the area's tourist industry and thus stirred protests against the Park Service's long-established policy of letting natural fires burn. In response, the Government has decreed that all this summer's blazes will be strenuously suppressed. But environmentalists insist that such human intervention threatens the natural cycle of forest renewal...
...issue in this case is not abortion," replied Sen. William Golden, a pro-choice advocate. "Roe v. Wade didn't mandate it. No Human Life Amendment will...
...course it isn't. It's about human life and when human life begins," Doris (D-Revere) said. Asserting that life begins at conception and citing several medical authorities on his side, Doris argued that all citizens have a duty to protect the rights of "the unborn...