Word: planking
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...budget package includes a revised version of the President's Hope Scholarship program, a large plank of his 1996 re-election platform. That program provides dollar-for-dollar tax credit to first-and second-year college students for the first $1,000 spent on tuition, fees and books. In addition, the scholarship includes a credit for 50 percent of the next $1,000 spent on college...
...guards pushed them over the gap between dock and plank, then up a narrow staircase. Buakey, the littlest one, stumbled and fell but couldn't rise because his hands were locked together...
...noticed that [Republican leaders] I thought were good were no longer doing right in my view," Keyes says. "I saw a big assault on the pro-life plank and the moral family...
...Marriage: Yasser Arafat won't take Benjamin Netanyahu's calls, King Hussein has had it with the tough-talking Israeli, and Netanyahu's idea of diplomacy is taking shots at both of his neighbors on a state visit to Moscow. Netanyahu's problem is that he's walking the plank, trying to move forward without alienating eith er his hard right constituency or the swing voters who want progress, but fear conceding too much, reports senior correspondent Johanna McGeary. "Netanyahu pulls out of Hebron, and then he balances that by announcing the construction of settlement s in east Jerusalem. Arafat...
...race to fill the seat of fellow Democrat Ray Thornton, Snyder has been called to question on his attempts to repeal Arkansas's anti-sodomy law. Countering that this is just his conservative opponent's attempt to derail his campaign, he contends that gay rights are not a major plank in his platform, instead emphasizing a balanced budget, campaign-finance reform and environmental protection. In a Little Rock district with a substantial working-class and African-American constituency, he also vows to protect education and Medicare...