Word: unmet
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...years later, America's effort to become the world's best-educated nation is receiving failing marks. A federal panel reported Thursday that each of the six national education goals President Bush set in 1990 for the year 2000 will go unmet. Still, there was some noticeable improvement from kids at the youngest age. As it turns out, throwing money at the problem of fulfilling Bush's goal that kids enter kindergarten ready to learn really did work. Even as the level of federal funding devoted to public education stagnated during the past decade, the amount invested in early childhood...
...always, it was President Clinton, the most finely tuned politician of the age and the bully pulpit's current occupant, who best captured the prevailing political tone. From global warming to lagging test scores, from car safety seats to unmet alimony payments, the President is quick to launch a program for any problem, no matter how obscure, with three points or five points or seven--the more points the better. And, yes, he did urge school boards to apply for federal grants that would put armed police officers in schools. But in the face of the carnage, he mostly dropped...
Tuesday's dry retelling of unmet policy goals marks a low point not only for Clinton but also for the American public, unsure who to trust in the web of contributions, allegations and investigations that entraps both Democrats and Republicans...
...meet with them regularly from now on. But no amount of cajoling from the White House will keep Gephardt from laying more groundwork for a presidential run. Just days before the AFL-CIO conference, he plans to cross the border into Mexico to highlight, as an aide says, "the unmet promise of NAFTA," the 1993 trade agreement that Gore publicly backed and the unions, joined by Gephardt, ardently opposed. Gephardt has also hired a new deputy chief of staff, David Plouffe, who has extensive campaign experience in Iowa, site of crucial early presidential caucuses three years from now. And Gephardt...
Kaufman said that there was an unmet demand for this kind of service...