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There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical that anything will come of this. Clinton's proposal for a year-long national debate to be followed by a White House conference on Social Security in December sounds suspiciously like substituting talk for action. That is even truer of the House Republicans' suggestion to put Social Security in the hands of a commission, adding yet another to the parade of blue-ribbon panels that until now have produced little more than unread reports full of alarming statistics and familiar options. And while Clinton last week preached the virtue of acting early...
...Year-long permits for the lot, located on Western Avenue, usually cost $350. Selvage said this fee is too high for those who use the studio for only a few hours a week...
...logic, the nation of Eritrea (pop. 3 million) should not exist. The secessionist province's independence fighters ought never to have defeated Ethiopia in their 30-year-long struggle. They were outmanned, outgunned, abandoned or betrayed by every ally; their cause was hopeless. They won by force of character, a unity and determination so steely not all the modern armaments, superpower support or economic superiority of Ethiopia could withstand it. The spirit that saw the Eritreans through 10 years in the trenches of their mountain redoubt at Nakfa has built them a nation from scratch, since independence was finally consummated...
...instruction for students with limited English skills, who comprise more than one fifth of the 5.5 million population. Instead of promising students whose first tongue is not English bilingual education, the new system will force all students not proficient in English into a one-year crash course in the English language. After the year-long course, parents who want to keep their children in bilingual education programs could attempt to do so by seeking a waiver...
...hired by the senator in 1977 to what was to be a year-long position, but ultimately stayed on for 20 years. Burke worked with Dole through his unsuccessful presidential...