Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such solidarity." Later she recounted being led through the press rooms, "People shouting questions at me--aaaiiieee, frenetic you know? And Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, comes up to me and punches me on the arm and says, 'Ya made a good movie, kid.' It was crazy." Will she move her base from New York to Southern California? "Are you baiting me?" she asked incredulously...
...outdone, Dave Singleton, Paul Halas and Morgan St. John all chipped in with a triumvirate (i.e.-three) of hits, while Rick Pearce reached base enough times to score three runs...
Later elected to the Knesset under Ben-Gurion's patronage, Peres built a political power base that reinforced his strong position among the military. Still, in 1965 he made enemies by joining Ben-Gurion in a group opposing the government of then Premier Levi Eshkol. Not until 1968 was Peres' faction reintegrated into the Labor Party. Subsequently Peres began broadening his expertise. He held such diverse jobs as Minister for Economic Development of Occupied Territories, Immigration, Transport and Communications and Information. When he lost a close race to Rabin for the premiership in 1974, Peres accepted the post...
...income housing cannot be funded by cities overburdened by their share of the so-called "launch-pad" function--injecting the poor into the social and economic mainstream of society. Even federally-funded non-market housing is fiscally undesirable to cities because the residents do not contribute to the tax base needed by cities under the present tax structure. Although the federal government is the only instrument potentially strong enough to overcome this problem at the local level(this raises an entire jurisdictional problem in itself), it remains to be seen whether it is possible to allocate resources for housing needs...
Lupo's thesis of suburban prejudice and class differences as key factors in delaying needed social change makes sense, not only for Boston, but for other American cities. Boston, often cited as a "liveable" city, faces white flight, a narrowing tax base, a degenerating school system and the same economic problems (unemployment, loss of business) plaguing the rest of New England. Lupo asks, quite rightly, "If such a place is allowed to flirt so closely with disaster, then what can the message be for the great urban centers of this republic?" Liberty's Chosen Home offers no master plan...