Word: voucher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While ride from Graham helped some students, most relied on taxi vouchers distributed by the athletic department. But the athletes say they prefer the shuttle to the voucher system...
Carol Gallo, sales and marketing manager forChecker Cab of Cambridge, said her company had notexperienced difficulties with the voucher system...
...Japan's muggers: In a desperate effort to pry open the wallets of its shell-shocked citizenry, the Japanese government is considering sending everyone a check to spend at the mall. The proposed "Happy Mondays" scheme would make more Mondays shopping holidays, and would give everyone a gift voucher worth around $250 in the hopes of reviving Japan's swooning economy from within...
Well, God can come back now, thanks to a ruling last week by Wisconsin's highest court that there is no such constitutional problem. The Wisconsin supreme court is the highest court ever to uphold religious-school vouchers, and both sides in the bitter national debate over vouchers are calling this a watershed decision. "It has amazing potential to shake up the political landscape," says Clint Bolick of the Institute of Justice, which argues for voucher programs around the country. But opponents insist the court got the First Amendment law wrong and say they will win if the case goes...
Supporters of the use of vouchers for religious schools say they're eager for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. In fact, Bolick says his group would support an appeal of the Wisconsin decision even though it won below. But Barry Lynn, of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says voucher backers are celebrating too soon. The current conservative court has never endorsed the kind of direct state funding of religious institutions that a school voucher represents. "Every parochial school is first and foremost a ministry," says Lynn. "The court has moved, but it hasn't moved that...