Word: patriotism
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...Clinton passed 13 major laws, including a massive deregulation of the telecommunications industry and a welfare reform bill that drastically reshaped how the federal government and states supported low-income people - and 2001- 2002, when President Bush joined a Democrat-dominated Senate in authorizing two wars and passing the Patriot Act and the No Child Left Behind education law. Neither the 2003-04 nor the '05-'06 congressional sessions, when Republicans have had control of the House, Senate and the presidency, eclipsed the first two Bush years in terms of major legislation. In fact, perhaps the most important domestic policy...
...Kong tycoon who was one of the Chinese leadership's most trusted advisers; in Beijing. During the Korean War, Fok defied a U.S. embargo and dispatched aid to China. In ensuing years, Beijing showered him with business contracts and official honors. Fok, an aide told reporters, was "a true patriot...
Some of the night’s performers did comment on the atypical venue-with its chandelier, statues of the American patriot, James Otis, and a former Harvard president, Josiah Quincy, and grand wooden ceiling...
...secretary—who has been a lightning rod for criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and for his own role in crafting the USA PATRIOT Act—met only subdued protests on campus. A student group circulated an open letter inside Ames Courtroom assailing Homeland Security Department policies on immigration. But the group, the Harvard Immigration Project, did not want to take a confrontational approach, according to its co-president, second-year law student Molly Thomas-Jensen...
Chertoff, who was one of the architects of the Patriot Act while serving with the Justice Department, also said that the laws cited by critics who question the legality of the administration’s programs were created prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and thus do not respond to present needs...