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...grass-roots efforts, however, form a crazy quilt of programs varying widely in generosity and effectiveness. There are companies whose idea of "reform" consists of slashing, or even denying, health benefits to retired employees (companies must now show the estimated cost of those benefits on their balance sheets as a liability, sometimes of embarrassing ; size). Some states have enacted only timid reforms, and others are being forced by a budget squeeze to pare down reforms put on the books in more prosperous times. Massachusetts, to take one prominent example, has delayed until 1995 some important steps in a comprehensive reform...
Ethnic studies--in terms of analyzing the different heritages that form the patchwork quilt of our American society--is less a distinct "approach to knowledge" meant to characterize the other Core offerings, Instead, it appears better suited as a focus of courses within the other, already defined fields, like literature and arts, or historical studies...
...spirit of service is sweeping this country and giving us a chance to put the quilt of America together in a way that makes strength out of diversity; that lifts us up out of our problems; and that keeps our people looking toward a better and brighter future," Clinton said. "This is going to be your program at your level with your people...
America thinks of itself as a diverse society -- a "gorgeous mosaic," in the words of New York City Mayor David Dinkins; a quilt of many ethnic and racial patches, in a favorite metaphor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's. But the figures of the 1990 census, only now crunched, suggest that the demographic surface of life in the U.S. is a lot smoother than one thinks. So is the cultural surface, unless the politicians ruffle...
...America's Western forests. During his confirmation hearings, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, the former Arizona Governor, had to run a gauntlet of Western Senators who left the impression that the government has unreasonably locked up vast tracts of forest. All it takes, however, is a flight over the tattered quilt of arbitrary-looking patches that remain of the Pacific Northwest's forests to refute bland assurances of responsible stewardship...