Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...condemn him for thinking small. But when it comes to families, Clinton said, you can think big about many small things. His laundry-list speech included tuition tax credits, adoption tax credits, money for child care, child-nutrition programs, literacy initiatives, family leave, even an environmental measure to help protect vegetables. These were the bricks of Clinton's "bridge to the future," but the man who helped find them was back in Connecticut, far from the cheers...
...issue was scheduled to hit the newsstands, the Star offered its scoop to several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. Only the New York Post went for it. Releasing it to other papers before its actual publication, Bunton insists, was simply an effort to protect the Star's scoop after Morris had been alerted to the story. Said Bunton: "The White House spin doctors might well try and do some damage control, and Dick Morris might resign quietly for personal reasons before we came out. We had five days before we were going on sale...
...speech, President Clinton played peekaboo with brother Roger's cherubic toddler) and children besieged by a host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore's oath to protect children from lighting up, the Clinton-Gore team seemed to be running against the Dole-Gingrich-Joe Camel ticket...
...convention and left Dick in the hotel. After the Gore speech, I called him. I wanted to make sure he was O.K. He was very upset, and he was also moved to tears by the Gore speech, since his mother had died of cancer. He said he wanted to protect me as much as he could...
Certainly, the N.E.A. and the A.F.T. have a history of resisting changes, from curriculum reform to teacher certification to merit pay. But as unionized teachers see it, the fierce struggles to protect their jobs, their raises and their work rules are part of a bigger war to save the very institution of public education in a climate of budget cutbacks and ideological polarization. "Blaming teachers for problems in education is like blaming doctors for aids,'' says Susan Moore Johnson, a dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "The problem with public education in this country has to do with...