Word: fewness
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The city of Cincinnati, Ohio scrapped the innovative voting system a few years later. As did the city of Worcester, Mass. In fact, since the 1940s, every American city that has adopted the highly-touted system for ensuring minority representation has repealed it.
"The earth shakes and rolls under my feet," shrugs novelist Wallace Stegner, a 40-year resident of Los Altos Hills. "It's never particularly alarmed me." Brokers insist that San Francisco's booming real estate market has not subsided. "Obviously the quake was a drawback," concedes Katherine August of First...
But as they swing between imperturbability and panic, Americans leave many experts wondering how to get society to gauge an acceptable risk. Almost a decade of dwindling public confidence in the Environmental Protection Agency, which was treated like an unwanted appendage by the Reagan Administration, has led to a proportionate...
Until the Frank expose, few people viewed the Times, founded in 1982, as a serious menace. The newspaper, after all, is owned by investors who are members of the Unification Church headed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose ambition is to lead a worldwide theocracy. Yet many critics who...
At 5:04 p.m. last Tuesday, precisely a week after the devastating earthquake, church bells pealed throughout San Francisco to mark the city's survival and recovery. But a few churches declined to join in the commemoration, which had been requested by Mayor Art Agnos, because the reverberations from the...