Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When asked earlier this month if she would use her position to try to improve Harvard's poor track record in women faculty hiring, Wilson responded, "the role of Radcliffe in terms of direct hiring decisions does not exist...
...pitcher of ice water in his hand, he poised haltingly over his coffee cup as his face betrayed mounting confusion over the disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed behind him. "It's just like an airport novel," muses a city official. "It's like the poor country boy who fights his way to the top and then becomes everything he's been fighting against." Like the emperor, Barry blindly marches...
...world where a great number of children arrive at school undernourished, neglected and in poor health, many feel that schools have little choice but to try to fill the gap left by the collapse of families and other social supports. "Parents just aren't there today," says David Lawrence, principal of the Thomas J. Quirk Middle School in Hartford, Conn. "We still are. The kids can't be left to founder...
...deadlock may lie in a House proposal to combine a smaller increase in the minimum wage with new tax breaks for low-income workers, an approach that Bush supports. The House plan, proposed by Wisconsin Republican Thomas Petri, would expand the earned-income tax credit. The tax rule allows poor working families to take special deductions of as much as $874 a year; Petri has suggested boosting the ceiling...
...cornerstone of Ronald Reagan's campaign for the White House was an attack on Government waste, fraud and abuse. Singled out for special scorn were "giveaway" programs for the poor. Now, as Congress delves into a spreading scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the hypocrisy of Reagan's rhetoric has been brought into sharp relief. During his Administration, a massive giveaway did take place, but to the greedy, not the needy. HUD, whose prime mission is to provide shelter for low-income citizens, instead became a gold mine for Republican insiders, ambitious developers and powerful Washington consultants...