Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's alteration of George Bush's repatriation program, which he had blasted as "immoral" during the campaign, will quiet the President's critics and save Florida from a wave of unwanted immigrants. But the military thugs who rule Haiti will remain in power, and Clinton's promise to "restore democracy" -- and Jean-Bertrand Aristide -- will remain unfulfilled unless more is done. To that end, says the President, anything is possible, including force. For now, though, Clinton favors the sanctions endorsed by the U.N. Security Council last Friday, a set of measures certain only to further harm the average Haitian...
WALTHAM, Mass--The first thing a visitor notices about the Fernald State School is the quiet...
Doris Manson, whose only child, Dorothy, has been at Fernald since 1947, said quiet is the school's primary attraction--both for retarded residents and their parents...
Fernald hasn't always been quiet; complaints about poor conditions for students led to great controversy some 20 years ago. Parents eventually filed a class action suit to force improvements...
Ideally, Lane would bulldoze the projects and disperse their residents to "normal communities." But "no one wants the poor in their neighborhoods," he says, "so that won't happen." The next best hope rests with the quiet revolution launched last week by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros. Rejecting calls to reserve public housing for the poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend...