Word: sullivans
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Advocates for the poor worked to revive the program over the following years. In 1959 - 50 years ago this month - Democratic Representative Lenore Sullivan of Missouri successfully championed a legislative amendment to launch a pilot food-stamp program to be run by the Agriculture Department. While the Eisenhower Administration showed little interest in the idea, President Kennedy's election the following year marked a major turning point: moved by the abject poverty he witnessed on the campaign trail in West Virginia, Kennedy authorized a three-year food-stamp program beginning in 1961. Following in McFiggin's footsteps...
...addition to the television series, Sandel and Sullivan noted that interactive online features will accompany the program to give viewers the chance to participate in the debate...
...Brigid Sullivan, the executive producer of the series and a vice-president of WGBH, said she has wanted to create a show featuring Sandel’s class for over 20 years but had been prevented from seeing the project to fruition because of funding constraints...
...Sullivan, Andrew • George W. Bush is begged by "to take full responsibility" for the "systematic abuse and torture under your Administration" and to "apologize for their scope and brutality", but don't hold your breath...
...ground rules of their contract. In one incident, according to POGO, guards set out from the embassy at night, armed and dressed in turbans, equipped with the embassy's night-vision equipment, to secure portions of the road between the embassy and the guard base in Camp Sullivan several miles off. But this action violated ArmorGroup's contract, which is only for static security - that is, guards at specified posts. (The role of traveling bodyguards for embassy personnel is contracted out to another firm, Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater.) What's more, the mission left remaining embassy security...