Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like a lot of young voters, I feel really inspired by what he's trying to get across and by his strong sense of integrity," Hwang said. "The [current] president isn't addressing health care or motherhood or environmental issues...
...have sex with Donna Rice, Jessica Hahn, Bob Dole. He can nuke Yugoslavia, legalize slavery, give ourselves back to England. He can abolish motherhood, apple pie, the American flag...
...Washington, and you'll find an Administration that loves the working class -- as a concept anyway. George Bush favors pork cracklings, and was probably munching on that well-known proletarian treat as he nixed the bill that would have extended unemployment benefits. Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders -- a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like...
...Working women pay a steep price for motherhood. Look what happens: if you take a 27-year-old American woman right now, she is doing very well. Whether she is a lawyer or a bus driver, she is earning almost 90% of the male wage. But the same woman at 35, with two children, working full time, is earning 46% of the male wage...
...explanation for the contradictory voting patterns is that controlling growth has become a motherhood issue for political candidates: no one dare oppose it. "Nobody in his right mind stands up and says, 'I'm the pro-growth candidate,' even when he is," notes San Diego campaign consultant Thomas Shepard. Voters themselves are of two minds about development. "We're schizophrenic about growth," admits Peggy Rubach, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb whose population has nearly doubled, to 290,000, in the past 10 years. "We want the jobs, but we don't want the problems that come with...