Word: softener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special-education budgets mushroom, some experts are looking for ways to soften the mandates. Edward Moscovitch, author of Special Education, Good Intentions Gone Awry, has one proposal. "I would have an ironclad provision that if a child is making reasonable progress in school, he doesn't get special ed., regardless of the disabilities," he says...
...five other candidates to win his party's primary, and he's gamely offering his own business experience to the First District as a change from business as usual. O'Sullivan has a straight-arrow Republican platform--he's for term limits, budget cutting and workfare--but to soften his hard-line fiscal policy he proposes a cushion of universal health care and reduced insurance rates for the self-employed...
...Tate parlayed his state legislative experience into a seat in Congress. Though he was the youngest G.O.P. freshman in the House, his youth didn't soften his conservative agenda: he voted to ease the Clean Water Act and to relax a law excluding court evidence illegally obtained by police. His proposal to bar illegal immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens was passed in modified form this fall. In this centrist district, Tate is running a close race with Adam Smith...
...Clinton became President, that helped James become a minor player in U.S.-Indonesia relations. In 1993 he assisted in setting up a meeting between Clinton and Indonesian President Suharto. This has led human-rights activists and Republicans to accuse Lippo of using its money to persuade the Administration to soften its policy of using trade sanctions to press for better conditions for Indonesian factory workers. While relations between the two countries have warmed up, experts attribute the trend mostly to Clinton's interest in focusing on trade in this rapidly expanding region instead of human rights...
...leader. Monday's serving: a proposal to ban the purchase of handguns by people convicted of domestic violence. Tuesday Clinton will focus on literacy; Wednesday on the environment. He will cap off the week in his acceptance speech on Thursday with more new initiatives, including economic proposals to help soften the blow of the welfare bill he signed last week over the objections of many Democrats. The welfare dispute looms as the main threat to a calm convention as Clinton hopes to become the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win re-election. Democratic officials said Sunday they would...