Subject: Presidential Battle Spawns Strange Vocabulary 
Date: Published: 9/20/88 66 lines
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Campaign '88 -- The Issues:  
    Presidential Battle Spawns Strange Vocabulary
 -- New Shorthand for Proposed Social Programs
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    By Gerald F. Seib and Joe Davidson
    Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

    {Part of a Series}
    WASHINGTON -- A strange new vocabulary can be heard these
 days on the campaign trail:  ET and toddler tax credits,
 partnerships and catalysts, college savings bonds and STARS. 
    They are shorthand terms for social programs being
 proposed in the 1988 presidential campaign.  As the
 modern-sounding terminology suggests, in a campaign often
 lacking in trail-blazing ideas, domestic social policy is one
 area where Michael Dukakis and George Bush are breaking out
 of their parties' molds.

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    Neither candidate's philosophical approach provides ready
 answers to every social problem, of course.  AIDS, for
 instance, is a pressing new problem defying normal policy
 formulas.  Mr. Dukakis advocates a "massive" public education
 program, increased voluntary testing for the AIDS virus and
 legislation banning discrimination against those carrying the
 acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus.
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                        Campaign Dictionary:  
              Candidates' Domestic Policy Terminology
     Dukakis
     Partnerships -- A combination of government and private
 resources to address social needs; his preferred way to
 tackle problems.
     ET -- Education and Training, a program he began in
 Massachusetts to give welfare recipients job skills and get
 them off welfare rolls.
     STARS -- Student Tuition And Repayment System, a system
 of government-backed college loans repaid through payroll
 deductions.
     Employer-Mandated Insurance -- A plan to expand health
 benefits by requiring most employers to provide minimum
 insurance coverage.
     BUSH
     Catalyst -- A role he thinks government should assume,
 spurring the private sector and markets to provide solutions
 to social problems.
     Toddler Tax Credit -- A refundable tax credit to poor
 parents with children under age four to help defray the cost
 of day care.
     College Savings Bonds -- Savings accounts with tax-free
 interest that parents should be allowed to open to cover
 college costs.
     Vouchers -- Government grants that public housing tenants
 could use to pay for housing in developments of their choice.

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