Word: solider
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...their battles against the teaching of evolution in states like Tennessee and Alabama. "The Pope is just an influential person; he's not a scientist," says Henry Morris, president emeritus at the Institute for Creation Research in Santee, California. "There is no scientific evidence for evolution. All the real solid evidence supports creation." Bill Hoesch, a spokesman for the institute, says, "[John Paul] would say that man's dignity does not suffer even if God used the process of evolving him from pond scum through the apes to the present so-called dignified position, and we would differ with that...
Womack is running in a solid Republican district--it voted for Bush by substantial margins in both '88 and '92--against a solid Republican, six-term incumbent. But he has been this route before and apparently wasn't discouraged by his 34-point 1994 loss, against the same opponent. Womack predicts that "the Gingrich budget" would cause Alabamans to lose billions of dollars in funding for Medicaid, Medicare and child-nutrition programs...
During his eight terms in the House, Shaw has enjoyed solid support from this "gold coast" district. His work on this year's historic welfare-reform bill--as chair of the Ways and Means Subcommittee for Human Resources he added a provision to deny benefits to nonnaturalized legal immigrants--should help. Last year Shaw sponsored a measure to cut back on the earned-income tax credit...
Blute's moderate voting record has earned him a solid base of support in the historically Democratic Third District. He broke party ranks to support the Brady Bill, the minimum-wage hike and the Family and Medical Leave Act, but maintains his fiscal conservatism by working for a balanced-budget amendment and requiring a three-fifths "supermajority" to raise taxes...
Kennedy, son of R.F.K. and nephew of J.F.K. and Teddy, has worked for 10 years in Congress to prove he's not just a legacy politician--and he has largely succeeded. Now the ranking Democrat on the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee, Kennedy has a solid activist record, including fights for better low-income housing and Haitian refugees, but some say he may have his eyes on the Massachusetts Statehouse...