Word: summing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest in a wave of welfare reforms enacted or proposed by budget-strapped states. But New Jersey's law is the first to freeze grants for additional children, which effectively eliminates a $64-a-month aid increase. Critics say the sum is too small to affect a woman's childbearing decisions and that the main result will be more hunger for the kids...
...make mistakes or have to account for past ones, they will let it slide. They'll even let you add two-and-two to five now and then. If you can't point to some heft behind you as a cushion, the voters think you're just the sum of your advisers' rhetoric and that you can't even get that right. That's why I'm often too specific. I know I have to work more to connect with an overarching vision, but I need the specifics in back for when things don't go well...
...home front for the dispatch of U.S. troops half a world away. "To bring it down to the level of the average American citizen," he said, standing up to Saddam Hussein "means jobs." Then, to make sure everyone understood, he said it again, "If you want to sum it up in one word, it's jobs...
Lenora Fulani. Thanks to her money-raising abilities, the 41-year-old developmental psychologist and leader of the left-wing New Alliance Party will receive more than $600,000 in federal matching funds, a sum exceeded only by Bush and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin...
...Massachusetts Enterprise Project, which began last year, differs slightly. Rather than issuing lump-sum payments, MEP gave participants regular unemployment checks for 24 weeks. It also offered 10 weeks of small-business instruction and financing at MEP's partner bank, Shawmut. So far, Shawmut has provided $165,000 in loans for such ventures as a catering service, a photography studio and a billiard hall. James O'Neill, who lost his $55,000-a- year job as a plant manager in August 1990, launched a worker's compensation consulting firm based in Westfield. "There was a period of doubt," he recalls...