Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these remedies are expensive, and we would demand them if our own children's lives were at stake. And yet we don't demand them for poor children. We wring our hands about the tabloid stories. We castigate the mother. We condemn the social worker. We churn out the familiar criticisms of "bureaucracy" but do not volunteer to use our cleverness to change it. Then the next time an election comes, we vote against the taxes that might make prevention programs possible, while favoring increased expenditures for prisons to incarcerate the children who survive the worst that we have done...
President Clinton went on national television to make his case for sending 20,000 U.S. troops to join the nato peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. The President said U.S. prestige in brokering the latest peace agreement was at stake and that a stable Bosnia was in America's national interest. Polls showed that a majority of the public was still waiting to be convinced. But on Capitol Hill, hostile skepticism melted into resignation as legislators acknowledged that the President had the constitutional authority to send the troops without their consent. Congress prepared to vote on a limited resolution of support, thereby...
...tape transcripts, internal memos and other records show GOPAC quite openly declaring its stake in federal races. "Action alerts," "phonegrams" and other solicitations repeatedly ask contributors for money to help win control of the House. In a letter to textile magnate Roger Milliken, GOPAC chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway invited the Republican financier to a Washington meeting and vowed, "We will be looking at plans to recruit and support candidates in 210 congressional districts across the country...
Skocpol said she was not sure that the councilors who approved the resolution were sufficiently informed about the issues at stake...
...Russia, whose participation the Clinton Administration had deemed crucial. French Defense Minister Charles Millon gave the mission a boost when he attended the meeting, ending a 29-year French boycott of NATO's military wing. The contributor of 10,000 of the 60,000 peacekeepers, France has a major stake in the largest troop deployment in NATO history. TIME's Bruce Crumley notes that the French now have 7,500 troops in Sarajevo and represent the most experienced contingent of European military units in a divided Serb-Muslim city that could be a flashpoint during the peacekeeping mission...