Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imposed the first known salary cap. In their wisdom, they withheld all the wages of their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens of thousands of strikes that have helped shape labor law and define the compact between worker and boss. Many strikes have been bitter. Some have been brutal: 18 steelworkers were killed during a 3 1/2-month strike...
...policies are requires a more systematic and regular explaining. In a time when the overall framework is not clear and when people are bombarded by information, I think a President has to do that with greater frequency and to try to make a continuing effort not only to shape a new world but to find ways to explain that world to the American people. And I don't think I did that as well as I should have in my first year. Even when I was doing the right things, I'm not sure I communicated it as clearly...
Like an out-of-shape fighter, O'Rourke chooses to pummel stiffs and has- beens. He wastes pages going after 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Planet, a quickly forgotten by-product of 1992 Earth Day hype. When he does take on a substantial foe, like Vice President Al Gore, he becomes almost hysterical, lumping Gore with Nazis and other totalitarians for observing that the world may be forced to respond to the global environmental crisis in a "collective, coordinated...
...roughly 12,500 children were taught at home, the number has grown as high as half a million. It remains true that most parents who choose to withdraw their children from the school system, or never send them in the first place, do so for religious reasons, seeking to shape their children's learning in accordance with their spiritual values. In addition, there are still the hermits and occasional hatemongers, observes Joe Nathan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for School Change, "people who have made it clear that the reason they educate at home is that they...
...Most of my ancestors were Protestants," Frazier writes. "Compared to them, I suppose I am an infidel." In telling their story, he realizes, he is tracing a particularly American trajectory. The people before him were secure in their faith and in their right to shape and lead a new nation. Then a lot of things happened -- all meticulously noted in this narrative -- beginning with pioneer hardships, moving through wars and economic booms and busts, and winding up in the pleasant suburban comforts of Frazier's own Ohio childhood. "I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed...