Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the nation's deep ambivalence about abortion. "We are not trying to come in and suddenly make radical changes," said freshman Republican Enid Greene Waldholtz of Utah. "We're trying to address the legitimate concerns of people who think the pendulum has swung too far." Says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, whose Contract with the American Family is the blueprint for much of the legislation: "We don't want to overplay our hand with a pro-life Congress the way the pro-abortion people overplayed their hand...
...Efforts to put some regulatory teeth into the Children's Television Act of 1990-- which requires that TV stations air at least some "educational and informational" programming for kids -- are long overdue. FCC chairman Reed Hundt is soliciting comment on several proposals, including one that would require broadcasters to air at least three hours of quality children's fare each week but would allow them to pay other stations -- presumably PBS stations -- to run two of those three hours. Representative Edward Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who sponsored the 1990 act, has said that the proposal "completely fails children...
...proposed deep cuts in LSC funding and aims to phase it out altogether. Traditionally, the right has taken issue with LSC's history of filing class actions against the government on behalf of the poor over welfare benefits, food stamps, and the like. But Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed told the New York Times earlier this year that the corporation should be abolished because it "subsidizes divorce and illegitimacy" by providing legal representation in domestic disputes...
...generally a fan of musicals," is writing The CapeMan with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and plans to bring it to Broadway next year. In a publicity stunt casting call last week, young a cappella groups competed in a doo-wop contest. The winners, TROY JACK, JAMAL REED, KEN MCKLENDON and JOEDI IMBERT, had the voices for Simon's musical but not the attitude. They want to give the $5,000 prize money to their churches...
Instead of six days in Cambridge attending policy panels and lectures, the majority of the newly-elected Republican representatives spent three days in Baltimore listening to such prominent conservatives as Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition and radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh...