Word: schoolyard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gore and his allies, backed by considerable polling, say taxpayers are more than willing to pay a small amount each month to guarantee their children a place in the digital economy. "If they want this fight, bring it on," says a Gore aide with a taunting schoolyard wave. "Politicians who are against this are going to seem like they are against the library or the telephone...
...idea in the early '90s that the response would be so great. We believe that if we are to see America's young people come to Christ and America turn around, it's going to happen through our schools, not our churches." Once a religious scorched-earth zone, the schoolyard is suddenly fertile ground for both Vine and Branches...
...Arkansas schoolyard deaths have given CAP laws a national push. Partly in response to the Jonesboro shootings, Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois this week will introduce federal CAP legislation. Says Durbin: "It's time for the adults who own the guns to act responsibly, to store them safely and to take responsibility for the guns in their possession...
Slate's Scott Shuger found that although USAT led with the schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, there was other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...
DONALD "DON" TRUMP AGE: 51 OCCUPATION: Self-promotion through buying and selling others BEST PUNCH: Never too busy to return schoolyard taunts or discuss radio ratings, Trump penned a letter to Imus: "If your ratings were as good as my book sales, you would not be mired in 13th-or-so place...