Word: decampment
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...cities, the cycle is as depressingly vicious as it is familiar. Businesses decamp; the young, the middle class, the skilled, the well educated flee; the tax base erodes. So taxes go even higher, driving out still more productive, wage-earning families. Says George Sternlieb of Rutgers University's Center for Urban Policy Research: "We have no experience in shaping decline. No graceful way of shrinking a city. We don't know what to do with people left in a city for whom there are no job opportunities." Although the solutions are elusive, it is clear that the cities...
...Ardis S. DeCamp Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...economic crisis were not enough, London was hit last week by a new series of letter and car bombings. The first incident occurred when Brigadier Michael O'Cock, 54, an aide-decamp to Queen Elizabeth, opened a parcel at his London home and had part of his thumb blown off. Next day a bomb planted in a car near Westminster exploded shortly before 9 a.m., injuring 54 people. Police attributed the bombings to an apparent last-ditch effort by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army to sabotage installation Jan. 1 of Northern Ireland's new coalition...
...last year of his life, Charles de Gaulle was walking on the grounds of his estate at Colombey les-Dcux Eglises with his aide-decamp, Colonel Jean d'Escrienne. During their chat, D'Escrienne asked the general to repeat the name of a politician he had mentioned. "So you plan to write a book about me some day," said De Gaulle. Last week D'Escrienne's book, Le Général m'a dit . . . (The General Told Me), was published in Paris. It contains no major political revelations, but abounds in illustrations...
...think you could just send a bunch of ships over there and all of a sudden decamp. I don't think that many of us are qualified to say anything more than Let's get out as last as we can. And fast is not as speedy as I lot of people would like...