Word: provisional
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WASHINGTON, D.C: President Clinton is considering a $21 million federal program to encourage more families to adopt children. Under the program, states would receive $10 million for "technical assistance" in finding children a permanent home, $10 million for identifying "barriers" to adoption and developing new foster care policies, plus $1...
Despite the otherworldly beauty of the place, President Clinton's decision to single it out for protection fell like a hammer blow in Utah. Segments of the local economy were already faltering, and with the ranching and logging industries falling on hard times, mining always seemed like a promising alternative...
There is some evidence that children benefit if their mothers stay home with them until they are one year old, and the welfare law allows states to exempt new mothers from work requirements for a year. But so far, states do not seem to be taking advantage of the provision...
In West Virginia, where one-third of all homicides are domestic, that change has been slow to come. In 1994 it became the last state in the nation to enact a "probable cause" provision permitting police officers to arrest batterers on the spot, even when the victim refuses to press...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a decision that could net the federal government tens of millions of dollars at the expense of victimized consumers, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that federal taxes must be paid on punitive damage awards won in personal-injury lawsuits. The ruling affects consumers nationwide whose...