Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effects--will hardly be easy or cheap. Workplace-based day care costs money. Ample and inviting public parks cost money. And it costs money to create good public schools--which by diverting enrollment from private schools offer the large communal virtue of making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes: taxes! Taxes, as Newt Gingrich and others have patiently explained, slow economic growth. True enough. But if economic growth places such a strain on community to begin with--a fact that Gingrich seems to grasp--what's so bad about a marginally subdued rate...
...truly has something for everyone. Although I don't personally enjoy all the types of material there, I will fight to keep them available. Children, and some adults, don't have the experience to properly assimilate their environment, whether it is the Internet, TV, radio or happenings in the schoolyard. Parents, teachers and others must prepare children for their future while controlling their present. Adults, however, have earned the right to make decisions about their own lives without interference. I'm logging on to the net today. BARRY STEELE Seneca, South Carolina...
...folks at Sony--the company that brought you the Trinitron television and the Walkman, and will soon launch the PlayStation game player--are newcomers to the $5 billion U.S. video-game business. But it didn't take them long to get into the mtv-blaring, schoolyard-taunting, testosterone-burning spirit of the thing. Hanging in front of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week was a Sony banner that boasted EATS NINTENDO FOR LUNCH--THEN THROWS...
...SCHOOLYARD GUNSLINGERS Their right to bear arms left unimpeded by the Supreme Court...
...says decorum is gone from Capitol Hill? After a week of Senate deliberations that might have been mistaken for a schoolyard rumble as they prepared to vote on their balanced-budget amendment, the members arranged themselves into something like a class picture. All were seated decorously at their antique mahogany desks. As the clerk called their names, each rose separately to announce his or her vote. Republican Hank Brown of Colorado even put his hand over his heart as he said, "Aye." You could almost forget that most of them still had slingshots in their back pockets...