Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal spending on schools is not the answer to their problems, they did ask that Bush help them hack through the thicket of regulations that accompany existing federal education grants. Bush agreed, in the words of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, to "swap red tape for results" in disbursing federal money. Those funds now come encumbered by rules that, for example, prevent night classes of adults from using computers bought for day classes of handicapped students...
...performance goals, but the question is . . . What happens if we don't reach them?" He suggested that "if we're not able in five years to get our schools back up to where they were in 1963, after spending 40% more, then maybe we should just . . . give people their money back and let them educate themselves or start their own schools. That would be one radical way to have accountability." Irritated White House officials scrambled to dissociate themselves from Bennett's impolitic outburst. But if the President and the Governors fail to show concrete results in this latest round...
...they applied for a Peruvian baby, the phone call came six weeks later, and they soon boarded a plane for Lima. Last week Bonnie returned to New Hampshire with five-month-old Rosa. "Once you have the baby in your arms," she says, "it seems worth all the waiting, money, traveling and hassle...
...pledged as collateral on education loans and first-home mortgages. Any tinkering should focus on how to get people to put more into IRAs (perhaps by raising the $2,000 annual allowable contribution, even if the excess were not deductible) rather than on ways to let them take money...
When he first arrived a little more than four years ago, Michael refused to bathe, disappeared from school for weeks at a time and filched money with Mazzafro's cash-machine card. "I was used to people taking me, then leaving me," the boy recalls. "I guess I was testing Dad all the time to see what he would...