Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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House Speaker George Keverian (D-Everett) urged support for the bill Saturday, saying the government has suffered enough cuts. He said new taxes were needed to preserve programs for the poor, the mentally ill, the homeless and those without heat for the winter...
...last week was the attitude it conveyed and, more particularly, the scare tactics it employed to conjure up images of another Vietnam War. Yet these scare tactics seemed woefully misguided--after all, Vietnam was a time when thousands of elitist students burned their draft cards and graciously let the poor and minorities do the fighting for them...
Hoffmann spoke on the reasons for the appeasement of Germany by the West that occured prior to the war. While Germany was ready to fight another war, the opposite was true of the West, Hoffmannn said, adding that in 1939, appeasement was not nessesarily a poor tactic'. "If one looks at England and France one sees an enormous battle fatigue," Hoffmann said...
Packwood isn't alone. Earlier this week, four Republican Congresswomen, all supporters of abortion-rights, met with President Bush to discuss the issue. They emerged from the meeting with a surprise. The President, they said, no longer rules out federal financing for abortions for poor women in the case of incest and rape. What a difference twelve months makes...
...spend so much on rich senior citizens that we neglect far more pressing needs in society. Children, for instance, are six times as likely to be poor than the elderly. We should be giving poor children a fighting chance instead of subsidizing the Carribean cruises of greedy geezers...