Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...take that $17.1 trillion, saute it lightly for 40 years and divide by 5, by which time 2.3 million schoolchildren will be reaching retirement age without being able to read the labels on their prescription drugs. My opponent's plan would ignore this problem for the first 23 months and then take the first derivative times 6%--oh, yes you would! Yes you would! I've read your plan--but under my plan, every citizen of this country would multiply 19 by 7 and get a very large number. And I believe the American people can be trusted to perform...
There are too many schools in America where the playgrounds in which kids used to play are now covered with trailers because of the overcrowding. The current generation of schoolchildren has surpassed the baby boom as the largest generation in U.S. history. Gore is a leader, and he has a bold, visionary plan to provide this new generation with the best education in the world. Bush does...
...best "I feel your pain" imitation and managing only to look like he was in some sort of gastrointestinal distress. And here was George, leaning in so close to Oprah that he looked ready to fall right out of his chair. Both of them waxing saccharine over unnamed schoolchildren in danger of falling behind, but offering no clear solution to the problems of overcrowding and underteaching. Both rhapsodizing over their fairy-tale marriages, their flawless children, their beautiful interior decorating...
...prevent unwanted conceptions, abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion forces should unite in bringing responsible, explicit sex education to schoolchildren, at the increasingly young ages, at the cusp of puberty, when it will still have an impact. The more explicit, the more real it is: Take the gory pictures of aborted fetuses off the street corners and into the classrooms, so students understand what is at risk when they choose to have sex. Bring teenage mothers into classrooms, as well as those who have had abortions, to talk about their experiences. Perhaps most important, mention abstinence but spend time describing...
DIED. JOHN HOLAHAN, 83, philanthropist, cereal executive and creator of Lucky Charms; in a car accident that also killed his wife Rosalind, 84; while going to visit their comatose 51-year-old daughter who was dying of liver cancer in Richfield, Minn. Holahan often told schoolchildren he created his "magically delicious" cereal during a 1963 brainstorm in which he cut up orange marshmallow peanuts and sprinkled them over Cheerios. Two days after the accident, daughter Shannon Kilkenny died...