Word: blanced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doreen Blanc, a former high school teacher now working at Tufts, also complains of a lack of leadership, but the state level. Her chief interest is education and that is her main issue--racial inbalance in the schools, certification of teachers, how to pay for education...
Like most of the candidates, Blanc would replace the present flat-rate income tax with a graduate income tax, and reduce the property tax by finding other ways to finance the City's schools. And in another area, Blanc says. "There just have to be massive programs in housing. There must be state money for old and delapidated buildings, and we need a much stronger rent control...
Vellucci, Toomey and Lombardi will be competing for the conservative vote, mostly centered in Wards One and Two. Amato and Blanc will probably divide the votes of young people and professionals in Wards Three and Four, making some inroads with the voters in the other two wards because of general dissatisfaction with incumbent politicians...
...flags, designating which country is host and which is guest, has been reversed. There is the vague feeling in the banquet hall that everybody has been part of some gigantic hoax, or maybe not quite that, but some kind of staging. After the popping of champagne corks (Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs, a scarce California label), Nixon gives a commercial for television but no revelation...
There was an answering bonfire from Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais, and French President Georges Pompidou warmly avowed that the vote was "proof that this time the Common Market is truly irreversible." But not many Frenchmen were that fervent. While the rest of Europe watched an hour-long special program on the Commons vote, France's state-run television disposed of the news in 30 seconds. The Belgians were probably most enthusiastic, as they had been all along. When they built the EEC headquarters in Brussels three years ago, they planted not six flagstaff's in front...