Word: vows
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...Massachusetts, provide health or other benefits for gay employees' partners. Such old-line companies as Union Carbide and Colgate-Palmolive hire consultants to teach about sexual orientation. Yet many gays still fear that acknowledging their sexuality may hurt their chances for promotion, and stay closeted even at firms that vow equal treatment. A 1992 survey of 1,400 gay men and lesbians in Philadelphia found that 76% of men and 81% of women conceal their orientation at work...
...including such staunch liberals as Ted Kennedy, reflects a weakening of their political position. Polls show declining public support for expansive health-care-reform schemes. Republicans feel more free to oppose such schemes in favor of limited insurance reforms. Democrats, meanwhile, are growing reluctant to back Clinton in his vow to veto any bill that fails to ensure universal coverage. Says a congressional health-care analyst: "A lot of us are worried that the White House badly needs a reality check. Clinton and his people are out of touch with what the public will accept and what Congress will vote...
WASHINGTON -- PRESIDENT CLINTON'S vow to "end welfare as we know it" was one of his most popular campaign promises. His welfare-reform team has had a legislative plan ready for Clinton to approve for weeks, but they can't get him to focus on it. They have urged that he announce his welfare proposals on June 8 or 9. "But we can't get the White House to tell us when they want to launch it, much less how," says a frustrated official. "Part of the problem is the inability to make a decision...
...planes back, but not before a surface-to-air missile launched by the Serbs downed a British Sea Harrier jet. The pilot parachuted to safety in a Bosnian village, but the episode only escalated the tensions. Would NATO step up air strikes? Would the Serbs make good on their vow to take the city by dusk...
Members of the Undergraduate Council, who have been working on this project for months, nonetheless vow to fight no. Could this be an attempt at political resurrection on the heels of student discontent with the council's latest fee hike proposal? Most likely...