Word: provisionally
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Yet thanks to affirmative action, a set of programs designed to help the disadvantaged, Frank Washington stands to benefit from a subsidy worth at least $400 million. Simply because he is black, Washington and his partners were able to make a special tax deferral part of their $2.3 billion acquisition...
He was inspired. "I didn't make the strong push to run until I was booed in Iowa," says the Pennsylvania Senator. He was convinced by that rebuke that the social extremism that had so disturbed him during the 1992 G.O.P. convention had taken control of the party. His candidacy...
House Republicans backed off their controversial welfare-reform provision that would have denied cash assistance to children born to unmarried women under 18. But what G.O.P. members proposed instead--a cash bonus to states that manage to reduce out-of-wedlock births as well as abortions-hardly pleased pro-choice...
The school lunch provision of the "Contract With America," due to be voted on the week after next, would increase spending on school lunches next year by only 4.5 percent. This would be a far cry from the 5.2 percent increase experts say is necessary to keep up with demand...
The absence of access to affordable, safe child care serves to keep welfare recipients in a state of dependence. Since there is no broad template for the provision of child care in this country, people must make do with makeshift arrangements that are often of dubious curricular soundness and sometimes...