Word: tensed
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THE WEBSITE. Netscape's Netcenter may turn out to have been worth a few billion in its own right. The Netcenter site is a leading contender in the race to become one of a handful of powerhouse "portals": full-service websites that are online launching pads, entertainment networks and shopping...
California unions turned out tens of thousands of voters in the election, helping spur a Democratic triumph. Now they are calling in the chits to promote "a living wage" for low-income service workers. A new Los Angeles ordinance requires firms doing business with the city to pay $7.39 an...
Let us recount, for a moment, some of Seaboard's corporate welfare in the 1990s: Minnesota provided more than $3 million in economic incentives; Kentucky, $23 million; Kansas, $10 million; and Oklahoma, $100 million. The Federal Government's OPIC provided $25 million in insurance for business ventures abroad. As for...
Building on those innovations, Bush has been pushing what he calls "the most profound goal I have set as Governor: teaching every child in Texas to read by the third grade." The initiative includes a back-to-basics reading curriculum, a new set of diagnostic tools to identify problem readers...
The scapegoating of gay people for political gain has got to stop. To varying degrees, gay people, particularly those in their teens, face a sometimes daily barrage of harassment, intimidation and threats of physical harm. The suicide rate for gay and lesbian youth is three times the norm, making the...