Word: pushes
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...legislators and others concerned about TV violence--or at least concerned about taking a public stance on the issue--the V chip seems a neat solution to the problem of asserting parental control. "I think that with a hundred channels coming in the future, parents should be able to push one button and knock gratuitous violence out of their homes," said cable mogul Ted Turner at a recent press conference. Representative James Moran, a Virginia Democrat, says, "We're not suggesting this is a perfect solution. All we're doing is offering something to parents who have...
...Republican push to transfer power to the states may soon endfederally-funded abortionsfor poor women. By a mostly party-line vote of 29-23, the House Appropriations Committee today approved a measure that would let states refuse to use federal Medicaid money for abortions for women who have been raped or are the victims of incest. States would have to continue using the money for abortions for women whose lives are in danger. Opponents said eliminating mandatory spending would, in short order, eliminate access toabortionsfor poor women -- and unconscionably so in cases of pregnancies after sexual assault. Said Rep. David...
Fearful that such a distinction would be lost in the blame game following Clinton's forced retirement, those who helped elect him are preparing to distance themselves while they still have the chance. "We're out to push the intellectual envelope," says the ppi's Rob Shapiro, who is working on a "radical" series of issue alternatives that could "unyoke" the centrists from their President. A full-fledged manifesto is due this fall, and if, as currently planned, it includes ideas like privatizing Social Security, it's unlikely that Clinton will have the nerve to sign on. At that point...
...Investors Service called the county's behavior "outrageous and unprecedented." Says Zane Mann, publisher of the California Municipal Bond Advisor: "People are saying, 'Screw them. I'll never buy another Orange County bond as long as I live.'" This anger has larger financial implications. An Orange County default could push up the interest rate on all munis, so that taxpayers everywhere would be forced to pay more to build a school or a road...
...Doge's Palace in Venice, down the little canal from the Bridge of Sighs, the Ponte de Paglia groans under the weight of Japanese, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen, Scots, English, Indians, Spaniards, Scandinavians--the whole world milling about in T shirts, polyglotting. It takes five minutes for a pedestrian to push across the bridge, a distance of 30 yds. Venice vanished centuries ago into its tourist shop-museum self, forfeit to the ever flattening demographics of mass tourism...