Word: tenet
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...door, he may have trouble explaining to libertarian-minded reformers why he opposes abortion. But conventional wisdom may not apply in Reformland. After all, Ventura has managed to become the party's leading officeholder while being a free trader--something that puts him at odds with a central tenet of the party's platform. Although the winner remains uncertain, so do the candidates. Beatty is said to favor running for the Democratic nomination; Weicker will decide in the next few weeks, but he told TIME, "There's so much on my agenda"; Perot has stepped back...
...question of what commitment the state government should show to public schools, and how that might conflict with the tenet of local independence, will continue to create a spirited dialogue...
...something the director felt good about doing," an intelligence official said of CIA chief GEORGE TENET's decision to strip his predecessor, JOHN DEUTCH, of his security clearance. "This is someone he worked for, who is a friend and a mentor." But, he adds, "what transpired was a fairly serious breach of the rules regarding handling classified information." Deutch had allowed highly classified material to course through his unsecured home computer--a big no-no. Immediate comparisons were made to the case of nuclear weapons scientist WEN HO LEE, a suspect in China's apparent theft of data...
...ideological battle. To liberals--and the Clinton Administration--the answer is greater investment in job training, substance-abuse counseling and other programs to help them overcome their various obstacles and get to work. At the same time, liberals have begun calling on the Federal Government to reconsider a central tenet of the 1996 reforms: that virtually every welfare recipient can and should be in the workforce. "It flies in the face of common sense," says University of Michigan public policy professor Sheldon Danziger. "There's no evidence from any welfare program that everyone can work steadily...
They also backed him when he decided to run for Congress in 1977, after only two years in town. (Yet George W. didn't want his father to campaign for him; he wanted to do it himself.) The decision to run violated a basic family tenet: First make your mark and your fortune, then run for office. Only those who knew him well had seen it coming. "He wasn't obsessed with politics, but it was always there," says Charles Younger, a Midland surgeon and longtime Bush jogging partner. A famously eligible bachelor, Bush had also surprised friends by courting...