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...strengthen Medicare (two new pledges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Pledge Drive: Week 14 | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...earns the Marxist army some $700 million a year, making it easily the wealthiest peasant guerrilla movement in history, one that is better equipped than the army it is fighting. That has prompted the U.S. to blur the distinction between counterinsurgency and the war on drugs in order to strengthen the government's forces - which many observers in the region and in the U.S. believe is a no-win proposition unless America's appetite for narcotics is diminished. But what congressional opponents of the U.S. aid package really fear is that it may drag Washington into the quagmire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. Is Getting Involved in Colombia's War | 9/7/2000 | See Source »

...fight now," it continues, "is to ensure that prosperity enriches all our families, not just a few. Strengthen social security." Ah, we see: "Improve" (Bush) means "turn into something else." "Strengthen" (Gore) means "keep exactly as it is, come hell or high water, just so it lasts until the baby boomers are dead." Gore will "take on big drug companies to guarantee prescription drugs for seniors. Hold schools accountable for results." (Yes! Those bastards!) "Tax cuts for working families and the middle class." Note the missing verb; at this point the syntax has broken down, as the biography has wholly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello! I'm Mr. Warm. And I'm Mr. Fuzzy... | 8/25/2000 | See Source »

...people in the world. He'd visualized peasant farmers wading into paddies to set out the tender seedlings and winnowing the grain at harvest time in handwoven baskets. He'd pictured small children consuming the golden gruel their mothers would make, knowing that it would sharpen their eyesight and strengthen their resistance to infectious diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grains Of Hope | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...Angeles' subway system and the purchase of another 1,000 buses. The protesters claim that the subway system has been built to serve non-minority users in wealthier areas. Quote: "The Bus Riders Union is challenging the failure of President Clinton and presidential nominee Gore to enforce, strengthen and increase the civil rights law at the federal level... We demand that Vice President Gore strengthen Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act. What we would like to see is for the federal government to start taking seriously the enforcement of Title 6... when a state agency is spending its funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where There's Pols, There's Pyres | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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