Word: johnson
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...Bureau has decided to reevaluate the parameters of poverty, and is contemplating a threshold $3,000 higher than the previous ceiling of $16,600 for a family of four. The poverty line, a singularly subjective definition of what it means to be poor in America, was established during the Johnson administration. Adjusted regularly for inflation, it serves as a primary indicator of the economy?s health - the fewer people under it, the better - and also establishes which families are eligible for government aid, like food stamps and Medicaid. As might be expected, the current administration is not too keen...
Eleven School Committee candidates offered their ideas for how Cambridge's school system can be improved in the next millennium in a forum last night at the Howard Johnson Hotel on Memorial Drive...
Instead I sat there, contemplating the tiny gap between life and death, not sure whether the growing darkness before my eyes was nightfall or my own consciousness shutting down, retracting into itself. Samuel Johnson once said the prospect of being hanged concentrates a man's mind wonderfully. I can testify that the prospect, extended over an hour or two, of dying in a gasoline fireball does much the same. It dissolves your more commonplace troubles--money, divorce--and shows you what you really want to live...
...GARY JOHNSON, 46, New Mexico PROS Will compete in Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii on Oct. 23 for third time; summited Mount McKinley; rode bike across New Mexico five times; hang glided off a 10,000-ft. mountain; nicknamed "Ironman." CONS 6 ft., 168 lbs.; slogan: "People before politics"; never on record as having pummeled anyone...
Nonetheless even Johnson isn't confident in the value of large lecture courses...