Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rory Kennedy 1968- --Documentary filmmaker with a focus on social issues...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921- --A social worker in Harlem during the '40s, she runs the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which helps the mentally retarded. She founded the Special Olympics and is credited with its success --Husband Sargent Shriver headed the Peace Corps. In 1972 he was George McGovern's running mate...
...Vineyard, where he had spent quiet summers after his father was gone. It would have been too much for the country to watch Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bury her son, but she was there, nonetheless, in her daughter Caroline. "It was as if Jackie were orchestrating these ceremonies," said Kennedy social secretary Letitia Baldrige...
...which is to say, in purely economic terms, the debate focuses on two issues: Should the surplus be returned to taxpayers, who put up the money in the first place? Or should it be used to pay down the $5.6 trillion national debt and shore up wobbly Medicare and Social Security funds? "This is a wonderful problem for the U.S. to have," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics...
...lower end of the scale. The White House wants to funnel tax breaks into new Universal Savings Accounts, which would serve as government-subsidized iras for low-income earners. The heart of the Administration plan is devoted to paying off the national debt and ensuring the solvency of Social Security and Medicare. Clinton would set aside a third of the projected surplus--or $374 billion--for replenishing Medicare funds that could otherwise expire by 2015. And he would put the interest savings that result from debt reduction into Social Security trust funds, which otherwise will run out by 2034. Moreover...