Word: franciscos
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...facilitating the marriage of nearly 4,000 gay couples in his city last year, Gavin Newsom is famous countrywide--and controversial. But at home in San Francisco, the mayor is simply adored. It's the main reason Newsom, 37, who barely squeaked into office in 2003, now enjoys an eye-popping 80% approval rating in America's ultraliberal gay mecca. But it is by no means the only factor. The workaholic millionaire restaurateur has packed more productivity into his first 15 months than many mayors manage in two terms. By diverting welfare payments for the homeless into a housing fund...
...Best Big City Mayors Chicago: Richard DaleyAtlanta: Shirley FranklinBaltimore: Martin O'MalleyDenver: John HickenlooperNew York: Michael BloombergHonorable Mention: Gavin Newsom / San Francisco...
...Best Big City Mayors Chicago: Richard DaleyAtlanta: Shirley FranklinBaltimore: Martin O'MalleyDenver: John HickenlooperNew York: Michael BloombergHonorable Mention: Gavin Newsom / San Francisco...
Still, some companies continue to range outside their industries. Ford Motor last week agreed to acquire San Francisco-based First Nationwide Financial, owner of the ninth-largest U.S. savings and loan, for nearly $500 million in cash. The purchase will expand Ford's credit business, which now includes financing the purchase of new cars. General Motors and Chrysler are also increasing their lending activity...
...sooner did the report appear than the CDC began hearing from doctors in San Francisco and New York City, who were also seeing PCP in young homosexual men. And that was not all they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that in this country is usually found only in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction. They had other infections as well: Candida albicans, a fungus that cakes the mouth and throat, making it difficult and painful to speak or eat; herpes, not just the garden variety of sores...