Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rockefeller said the federal government must also re-introduce Earned Income Tax Credits, toughen child support enforcement, strengthen the welfare program and instill traditional American values...
Rockefeller emphasized the need for government programs that strengthen the middle class, which he said has been weakened by laws that promote the interests of the rich...
...also urge that the council take a more active role in addressing Cambridge's homelessness problem. The city must be prepared to take up some of the slack created by state cutbacks in the shelter system. They must strengthen the support of its shelters and must begin to think creatively about ways to allow ordinary citizens and the private sector to help the homeless. One such proposal might include the creation of food vouchers individuals could give to the homeless instead of change...
Platform: strengthen parent involvement by holding workshops and establishing more direct contact...
...perhaps you'll find yourself in an herbalist's lair, a shop like the one run by Ron Teeguarden in Venice, Calif., crammed full of respectable-looking people seeking Astragalus, said by the Chinese to strengthen the immune system, or the prized Reishi mushroom, purported to help counter the effects of chemotherapy. Teeguarden, 44, who spent years in Asia studying herbalism, offers private counseling for $35 a session to clients who include John McEnroe and Lisa Bonet. And while you're in the neighborhood of California, you may even wander over to one of several Ayurvedic centers, where therapists ! will...