Word: kemp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem facing inner-city youths, however, has been that they seem to reap little of the economic benefit even when the job market is expanding. Congressman Jack Kemp, a Republican from upstate New York, is a leading advocate of urban enterprise zones, which would use tax incentives to encourage businesses to provide jobs in depressed urban areas. Others feel that it is necessary to create work programs that will draw young blacks away from the inner cities, where the underclass culture makes it extremely difficult to break out of the poverty cycle. Nicholas Lemann, a journalist with the Atlantic, describes...
Barrett, who was White House correspondent during the first five years of the Reagan Administration, plunged into his new duties by following such potential presidential candidates as George Bush, Robert Dole, Jack Kemp, Gary Hart and Joseph Biden as they campaigned for this year's crop of state and local nominees...
...city fathers may not appreciate the etymology lesson that opens CBS's new mini-series, Fresno. But Creator Barry Kemp (a writer-producer who has worked on Taxi and Newhart) could not help noticing that Fresno, the world's raisin capital, wound up last in a 1984 ranking of American cities according to quality of life. To be sure, the quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody...
...Jack Kemp. If Dole fades, the New York Congressman will get another shot at what he failed to do this year: become the prime alternative to Bush...
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