Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he's done for us," says public- housing activist Kimi Gray. In racially divided Washington, white residents of comfortable neighborhoods in the city's northwest seldom stray into the areas where most black citizens dwell. Many blacks believe that whites are following a devious "plan" to regain political control of the District by embarrassing black officials. The mayor has survived by playing on that fear and, like any good political boss, distributing favors to his constituents...
...only did dresses for people who came to me." By 1984, however, she was selling her designs to other shops, and in three years she was producing more than her Spanish manufacturer could handle. She switched to GIBO, and although she admits, "I'm always terrified of losing control," she continues to see her designs as small fragments of communication, serendipity on a clothes hanger...
...first half, we weren't patient," Delaney Smith said. "We never felt like we had control...
...Barry resigns now, he can leave with thanks from the city for his civil rights advocacy and for two effective terms as mayor. Stay on, and he disgraces Washington by holding it up as a model of political corruption and faces the prospect of losing whatever control he retains over a city that is rotting outside from its drugs and inside from its government...
Stanley said that although students oppose a ban on alcohol, many favor tighter control...