Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that's just what they did. While Bush's reasons may have been rooted in due diligence, the insurance industry took the pause as a gift, according to Angela Choy, field director for the nonprofit Health Privacy Project in Washington, D.C. "The insurance industry has waged a pretty intensive campaign to get the public and Thompson to view these regulations as a bad idea - and really pushed to get the government to change aspects of the regulations in their favor...
...According to a poll published this week by the independent, nonprofit Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Americans like the idea of federal money supporting religious charity groups, but they aren't so sure they like the practical aspects of setting the plan in action...
...McVeigh's death is broadcast to survivors, will it establish a dangerous precedent? Brenda Bowser, communications director at the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., doesn't think so - simply because McVeigh's case is so unique. "There have been very few, if any, death penalty cases in U.S. history with so many victims," Bowser told TIME.com. "Thousands of people were directly affected by the Oklahoma City bombing." The sheer breadth of McVeigh's terrorism, says Bowser, makes this crime - and its punishment - different from anything else we've seen...
...Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments...
...involved with their communities. ''I don't think God puts you on this earth just to make millions of dollars and ignore everyone else,'' says Chris Amundsen of Minneapolis, a commercial real estate expert who took a 34% pay cut when he became the chief financial officer of a nonprofit housing agency...