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Moses went on to build many more monuments. F.D.R. went on to erect social programs as promiscuously as Moses built state parks. But the point of such activism was plain: government was to produce something tangible, visible, usa- ble for the ordinary working-class -- now called middle-class -- American family. That was the theory of the New Deal, with its unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and assorted public works. That was the animating vision that allowed American liberalism to dominate national politics for four decades...
...rent control supporters successfully erect any of these roadblocks, a vote on rent control would be delayed a year, two years or forever...
...height of real estate a-go-go, the developer and publisher Mort Zuckerman was chosen after an intense competition to erect a gigantic high-rise -- luxury condominiums! luxury offices! -- on government land at the southwestern corner of Central Park; he was a winner. But a coalition of liberal Manhattan swells, worried about the shadow the skyscraper would cast over the park, ruinously slowed down Zuckerman's plans; Mort was a loser. Then the commercial real estate market crashed, with Zuckerman, lucky for him, having built nothing; so he is a winner...
...telemarketers said their office is so laid back that "we got that one for our woman boss last year," she said, pointing to an erect male organ perched atop a white layer cake...
Cisneros thinks an answer may lie in a new partnership between cities and the Federal Government. He has chosen Washington to launch a program that aims to shift the focus from cities' narrow efforts to erect emergency shelters to a more far-reaching campaign to provide the needy with social services and permanent housing before they ever land on the streets. The D.C. program calls for creating 1,000 permanent housing units, 100 job-training slots and 400 places in substance-abuse treatment facilities. The government will contribute $20 million in three installments over two years, but only...