Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is an archetypal adversary, an angry Amos unearthing evil in America today, it is Jack Anderson. He is the latter-day, stinging serpent of the Lord at the bottom of the bureaucracy, slugging away at slime and moral decay, six days a week...
...ramshackle homes and bilked thousands of poor buyers. Much of the housing, moreover, was overconcentrated on the edge of the metropolitan areas. Upwardly mobile blacks and whites were thus encouraged to leave the inner city, leaving behind the more helpless and criminally inclined groups. Because of the social decay that ensued, structurally sound housing was abandoned, contributing to the ghetto housing shortage. But the fact that housing policies led to undesirable results does not totally discredit them. Anthony Downs, chairman of the Real Estate Research Corp., argues that a solution lies in a broader social policy that would transfer some...
Taken chronologically, the drawings could be read as a footnote to the history of the decay of the Safavi dynasty. Riza joined the royal atelier soon after Shah Abbas ascended the throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style...
...American press will think this was the case because this is all that has been reported for the past few weeks. They have shown no interest in Britain for months and years, ever since the war. Now all they do is describe Britain as being in a state of decay and one of perpetual crisis, which does not bear any relationship to the facts. For the past year, until this particular dispute with the miners, we have had a period of very great industrial peace and we have been extremely successful in dealing with wage-cost inflation." What the Prime...
...recognized as an "urban" spokesman, but he has accelerated the decay of Manhattan by starving New York City for funds. This he did partly to make potential political rival John Lindsay look...