Word: states
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...degree was not a detriment, but I would have developed more as an athlete if I had gone to a state school," he says. "The people were very skeptical in the profession about the Ivy League...
Will said Bush will not be susceptible to the kind of attacks his father employed against Dukakis because of his solid foundation in the Longhorn State...
...Wedgwood Baptist Church, on the day of Fort Worth?s annual "See You at the Pole" festival (in which teen Baptists at local schools meet outside for group prayers at the flagpole), is the latest sanctuary to be profaned by random savagery. And Texas is the latest state to wonder whether the guns on the nation?s streets are too many...
...Berliner. The U.S. president has urged Germany?s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to stay the course of welfare reform, the New York Times reported Thursday, but German voters have lost their appetite for their government?s Clintonesque "Third Way" policies. Schroeder?s ruling Social Democratic Party has been humbled in state elections twice in as many weeks as the party?s traditional support base stayed home to protest the chancellor?s proposed sweeping welfare cuts. Last Sunday?s elections in the former East German state of Thuringia saw Schroeder?s party not only turfed out of power, but also humiliated...
...welfare provision that would make Ted Kennedy blush. "Social Democratic supporters have been shocked by Schroeder?s plans, because they?re so unlike the party?s traditional policies," says Sautter. And while Clinton?s policies were put before the voters at two-year intervals, an ongoing series of state and regional elections has provided an ongoing referendum on Schroeder?s. "This series of elections in quick succession is creating a snowballing rejection of Schroeder?s policies," says Sautter. And sooner than get voted out themselves, that may tempt the Social Democrats to ditch Schroeder and his policies...