Author: The National Center

Black Leadership Drops the Ball on Minority AIDS Epidemic – July 1998

Press Release /
Devastating Families and Communities Black leadership network Project 21 says AIDS among minorities is a public health emergency that can no longer be ignored by the black community and its leadersWhile thousands of experts on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are ...
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Do Standardized Tests Add Up? by LisaRose Blanchette

New Visions Commentary /
As a teacher preparing to enter my 11th year at the front of the classroom, I feel the need to comment about the weight placed on standardized test scores. It's not about improving the students. Instead, it is all about ...
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Congress Takes a Byte Out of the FCC, by Faye Anderson

National Policy Analysis #204 /
The millennium computer bug has bitten Vice President Al Gore. I'm not talking about the Y2K programming crisis. Gore's gigabyte-size problem stems from his role as head cheerleader for the Clinton administration's plan to wire all schools and libraries to ...
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Legal Briefs #12: June 30, 1998

Contents:* Exxon Sued for Trying to Prevent Oil Spills * Senate to Vote on Product Liability Bill July 7 * Tort D'Jour: Fortune 500 to Provide Sex Ed? Exxon Sued for Trying to Prevent Oil SpillsWhen it comes to the ...
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Legal Brief: Exxon Sued for Trying to Prevent Oil Spills; Senate to Vote on Product Liability Bill July 7; Fortune 500 to Provide Sex Ed?

Exxon Sued for Trying to Prevent Oil SpillsWhen it comes to the federal government, it seems you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. At least that's the way it seems to some businesses that are trying ...
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Relief Report #66: June 26, 1998

Alaska's congressional delegation has formed an unholy alliance with Greenpeace to support a bill that would sanction a regulatory taking. The bill, the American Fisheries Act (S. 1221), would raise the American ownership requirement for all fishing vessels operating in ...
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The Death of the Tobacco Bill is Good News for Food, Coffee, Cola and Restaurants

Press Release /
The June 17 death of the massive tobacco bill is good news for the American people, says Amy Ridenour, president of The National Center for Public Policy Research. "Proponents of the bill lost sight of the original agreement between states ...
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Scoop #189: June 16, 1998

Since the House of Representatives approved the Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery and Economic Stability Act of 1997 (H.R. 858) last July, many have hailed it as a locally-driven "consensus" initiative. Timber companies like the plan because they believe it ...
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Relief Report #65: June 12, 1998

Contents * NWI Report Unmasks Possible Lawbreaking at EPA; Department of Justice Investigates * Federal Government Intentionally Kills Jobs in Inner Cities * Racist if You Do, Racist If You Don't * Do Alaskans Make Poor Neighbors? * If Congress ...
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Scoop #190: July 6, 1998

Contents * 1972 ABM Treaty is Legally Null and Void, Says International Law Experts, Yet Administration Wants to Extend It * Administration Tries to Reinstate Immigration Procedure Whereby Green Cards Are Provided for $1000, with No Background Check * Cuban ...
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