Word: fifths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THAT SCENARIO may be just one of many, but it points to the real need city liberals feel to establish a ruling liberal majority in the next election. Winning that fifth CCA seat won't be easy. To combat the single-minded determination of the city's conservative voters, who often pick their friend's son and bullet vote for him, liberals can choose from two different but compatible strategies...
...votes merely maintained the same number of progressives on the council. "No more, no less, we just tread water like every year," a disgusted CCA adherent complained as the final vote totals came in. And that means two more years of dependence on independent Alfred E. Vellucci for the fifth vote necessary to pass liberal programs, notably rent control...
Justice Phyllis Kravitch of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Louis M. Pollak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania joined Stewart in judging Fenton Oil Company, Inc. v. Amar Petroleum...
...plain north of Parma stands a shining monument to the Harvard Business School. The largest pasta factory in Italy, it now produces more than a fifth of all the spaghetti eaten here. It is American owned and run according to all the newest methods. All steel and glass, humming machinery, it is a symbol of the new Italy, the post-war industrial revolution that has transformed a rural agricultural-based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged...
...devoted Princetonian, I left Tiger country for the pseudo-city of bahstahn to attend the Hahvahd-Princeton football game. Having bought the Harvard Crimson, I read your article about "machines", although I felt that the article should not really begin until the fifth paragraph where you tell the story of Princeton pockets...