Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayors who presided over less fortunate cities had even less to offer their poor constituents, and have suffered accordingly. In 1986, Gary's Hatcher and Newark's Ken Gibson became the first black mayors to fall to challenges from a new generation of black aspirants less interested in national podiums than in the unglamorous day-to-day management of their cities. Many of the new generation of urban leaders, such as Baltimore's Kurt Schmoke, a former prosecutor, have backgrounds in business or the professions. "There is a growing respect for the intractability of urban problems," says analyst Williams. "Some...
...Even the most successful black mayors can also fall prey to the arrogance and corruption that have dogged many of their white counterparts. Last week the city attorney of Los Angeles concluded that five-term Mayor Tom Bradley "clearly stepped into that gray area between factual innocence and a chargeable offense" after Bradley's phoning the city treasurer last March on behalf of a bank that employed him as an outside "adviser" led to a city deposit of $2 million. The city attorney also filed a civil suit accusing Bradley of failing to disclose on city conflict of interest forms...
...message in all this for high school seniors and their parents nervously prepping for the college gauntlet, it is simply "Relax." To its credit, American higher education remains infinitely less hierarchical than that of Japan or France. In a nation of second chances, no college admissions office -- not even Harvard's -- has the power to either guarantee success or withhold...
...lake overflow has been channeled through a massive flood-control project -- 1,400 miles of canals and hydraulic pumps that can drain a field or rush water to urban centers on command. Using computers, engineers now try to mimic the natural flow into the park. If water levels fluctuate even by a matter of inches, the ecology of the Everglades can change radically. The same holds true if the water is polluted...
...anywhere in the world. After a decade in power, the more conspicuous Mrs. Thatcher has named not a single woman to her Cabinets. In Norway it is scarcely newsworthy anymore that every other member of the Cabinet is a woman, and more than a third of the parliament. Brundtland even toys with the idea of changing the country's system of hereditary monarchy to allow princesses as well as princes to inherit the throne. And in the privacy of her own home, this socialist crusader is married to a prominent conservative scholar and columnist, who raised their four children while...