Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student voters will, the incumbents hope, flock to the polls to register their opposition to nuclear weapons development and military aid to Latin America...
...Chicago Ronald Reagan kept talking about during the entire campaign because he said she cheated on welfare." But once underway, the author turns almost exclusively to topics like the real estate market in Georgetown, the inconveniences of the Eastern shuttle and the tribulations of a family man tending the flock on Martha's Vineyard. After a while, you're sure there's got to be something more poignant to relate than speculation about Jackie Onnasis' plans to move in next door and Bergdorf Goodman's arrival to follow. If he can't stand the other side of the tracks, then...
...many white Cadillacs to one of his several homes and lets his halo envelop all around him. Rev. Moon also dispenses with the thorns and the pain bit. Life is a pleasure for such a wealthy and happy man; so must it be for his brainwashed flock...
...rank a half-step ahead of Jaye P. Morgan (sic.) and a step behind Burt Reynolds. But People is also about jes' folks, once-ordinary citizens, who, through either outrageous good or ill fortune, have come to claim their 15 minutes in the sun. People looks at its flock with an endearing innocence; it sees only good and bad, with little in between. The crucial point about People is that it sees its once-ordinary folks as good, and this is the quality the 'Poon captures so well...
...only way to protect low and moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better for a fundamentalist preacher to tell his flock that the whale didn't really swallow Jonah. Enacting rent control in 1970 was a tremendous struggle; maintaining it since then has been just as hard. And tenants have to look no farther than Somerville--where rents doubled and tripled when rent control was wiped off the books 18 months...