Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exports American jobs and suppresses American wages. And though free traders have proposals for dealing with the problem, Gore didn't mention them. Apart from a promise to negotiate labor and environmental agreements as part of future trade pacts, not as side deals, he offered platitudes about protecting the right to organize and boosting the minimum wage--no-brainers for any Democrat. In fact, nothing Gore said in L.A. about how he'd "stay and fight for working people" would have raised an eyebrow the next day in Washington, when he told the free-trade-loving members of the Democratic...
...whole pageant roll by. On her far left are the "scared freshmen boys, the ones who haven't really come into their own yet." At the next table are some African-American boys, and next to them is a table of preppy sophomore and junior girls. To her far right sit the seniors, divided into the In crowd and the "in-between" crowd. ("They get to talk on the phone with the In crowd but are not invited to their parties...
...Katy's funeral was hardest for me because she lived right next to me, in my backyard," says Beth, the softball team's shortstop and co-captain. "But I knew Joe since sixth grade, on the bus. He'd make me play with his earlobe...
...office? Maybe he'll tool around Voxcap.com The new website is a wonk's dream. Not only is it a forum for policy discussion on national issues, it also points you toward activist organizations like the Sierra Club and helps you send letters to your local newspaper or Representative right from the site. So far, discussions have been low volume, but perhaps they'll heat up soon with posts like "Ex-Prez...
...school has little control over what students do off campus. But because tobacco smoke can disguise marijuana and is a threat to safety and health, Webster Groves High is smoke-free. "Only six years ago, we allowed smoking right on campus," says assistant principal John Raimondo. Before the days of walkie-talkies, says sophomore Justin Mahley, his brothers' friends smoked bong bowls of marijuana in the courtyard. But, he says, "they don't let anything slide anymore...