Word: kassebaum
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...this country that, because of these changes, feel like they're always going to be on the losing end of cost-cutting and quality issues in every sector of life." Much of the legislation that has passed--with bipartisan support--has been designed to soothe a country in flux: Kassebaum-Kennedy health-care portability, so that when you switch from one job to the next, your benefits are secure; minimum-wage increases to fight off the market's pressure on the working poor; and tax credits for families with children...
...behavior so shocked members of an independent panel that visited the Missouri base in September that they immediately urged that men and women quickly be moved to different floors. The panel, headed by former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, went on to visit 16 other bases and interview some 1,000 recruits and 500 instructors. What they found only confirmed their initial alarm. Last week the panel issued a report recommending that the military end mixed-gender barracks altogether. Furthermore, the study raised as its ideal the policy to which the Marines have adhered all along: single-sex basic training...
...implicates others or smacks of self-congratulation. It's that it is a haphazard, self-limiting approach to public policy--and there's a lot of that going around these days. Hard-nosed budget hawk Senator Pete Domenici, whose daughter has suffered from mental illness, expensively amended the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-care bill to cover such afflictions. Conservative Republican Senator Al D'Amato, whose top political strategist is homosexual, supports gays in the military. Antiregulation Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, whose daughter was tragically killed in an auto accident in 1993, opposed repeal of the federal 55-m.p.h. speed limit...
MARRIED. NANCY KASSEBAUM, 64, retiring Republican Senator from Kansas, and former Senate majority leader HOWARD BAKER, 71, a fellow Republican; in Washington...
...Senate by two seats to 55-45 in the November election, Republicans are still five votes short of stopping Democratic filibusters. At the same time, Lott will have to appease his own constituency, which has grown increasingly conservative, especially with the retirements of moderates like Alan Simpson and Nancy Kassebaum...