Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he first worked for Senator Coats, a conservative protege of Quayle's. Morris tried to get Coats to take on the same kinds of issues Clinton is talking about now, which had been considered beyond the realm of presidential concern: school uniforms and youth curfews; TV violence and teen smoking. Other Clinton ideas--like using tax credits to encourage responsible behavior--were picked up from Coats...
...teenage welfare mothers to live at home, for instance, and intensifying the pursuit of deadbeat dads, who have been forced to pay 40% more money for the support of their children. From Clinton's bully pulpit these days comes an endless succession of moderate-conservative preachments: for school uniforms, teen curfews and more cops on the street; against TV violence; for gay rights but against same-sex marriage. Affirmative action? "Mend...
...stricter rules on the sale and marketing of tobacco products ready last year, but as the President prepares for the Democratic National Convention, his Rose Garden assault on the tobacco industry will doubtless play favorably in the polls. The new FDA rules are intended to cut the number of teen smokers by 50 percent within seven years. Photo ID will be required to buy cigarettes, while vending machines will be eliminated in all but adults-only spots where minors cannot venture. Advertisements in teen magazines are restricted to a deliberately drab black and white text-only format. Billboards advertising tobacco...
...been a bad year for Montoursville. One teen dropped out of school and later committed suicide. There were two fatal traffic accidents, one killing a well-known high school student and the other a grade school child. When a vigil for the dead French club members took place on Thursday night in the school gym, 2,100 weary souls, a little less than half the town, showed up and wept in the bleachers. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge attended. A group of cheerleaders, in uniform, placed photographs of the town's 21 dead on a makeshift altar. The first speaker...
...widely accepted is this notion of civic decline that both Bill Clinton and Bob Dole have been exhorting Americans to pull up their socks. (Rhetoric is free; programs cost money. Besides, who isn't for volunteerism?) Clinton has used a series of Executive actions regarding teen smoking, gun sales and truancy as a paternal prod--in effect, making the Federal Government the village patriarch who reminds members of the community of their obligations to one another. Last week Clinton introduced a schoolhouse-repair program, which is meant to spur local investment, not as a public-works effort...