Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of a wave of young and progressive big-city mayors that included New York's John Lindsay and Cleveland's Cart Stokes, he worked hard to change that. He developed an innovative program of "little city halls" designed to increase communication between neighborhoods and city government. With the array of grassroots public interest organizations around today, it's hard to imagine the effect White's approach had. The early years of his tenure were a time of refreshing change, a dose of sincere urban populism...
...Schell by featuring a piece "in defense of deterrence." It spread further with a Newsweek cover story. And it evolved all out of control with an ABC Nightline special edition live from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government two nights ago that showed off satellite technology and an array of impressive guests...
...Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories which Hill reads before the company breaks into a funky rendition of "Rebel, Rebel." And maybe it has something to do with all the gratuitous semi-nudity, or the baffling pantomimes of torture and death. May be it even explains Leslie Beckhart's stunning array of metallic punk costumes, although they make Peoploids look more like a Fiorucci fashion show than a Washington march...
...complaint against a minority admissions quota at the University of California medical school at Davis. At a time when the Reagan Administration is cutting back funds for bilingual education and backing away from affirmative action, his views take on political significance. He has been quoted and courted by an array of right-wing politicians "for whom," he says, "I would never vote," and called a "brown Uncle Tom" by minority groups. Commenting on Hunger of Memory, Oral Historian Studs Terkel, a supporter of affirmative action, warns, "I don't want to see the book of an exceptional individual used...
Those nominal prices do not take into account the array of so-called creative financing schemes that lower the final cost. As much as 70% of home sales involve some type of creative financing. Says Broker Bill Adams of W.T Adams & Co. in Atlanta: "We haven't made a house sale through a bank or an S and L in almost a year." The few houses that do not involve seller financing, he says, just "sit there and their real estate signs rust...