Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit has enacted income and property taxes as high as Michigan law allows, and slapped a 5% tax on residents' telephone, gas and electric bills. Still, the city faces a $30 million deficit this fiscal year. "Every morning we gather in the mayor's office to pray for money," quips a mayoral assistant, "and we face Washington." Since the prayers have gone unanswered, Mayor Roman Gribbs has requested cuts of 5% to 45% in all city departmental budgets. All Detroit skating rinks are closed this month, parks and playgrounds will not be cleaned up for the spring, and recreation programs...
Robinson charged yesterday that the new 360-50 computer, which IBM is leasing to the South African Government, would "probably be used by the government to gather vast storehouses of information concerning the personal lives of black people...
...between these purposefully limited excursions, the candidate could actually designate a Cabinet or at least gather a pool of talented men around him and make it clear that they would be his Cabinet members if the trial period went smoothly. The same could be done for the heads of key agencies and White House staff. The formation of recent Administrations after victory has been a frenzied and sometimes sloppy operation. The President-elect and his people are exhausted, often stunned by winning. Opportunists and party contributors swarm into Washington, smelling the power that has settled on the victor. Rushed beyond...
...Precisely, sir, Carpe diem, the Roman poet Horace advised. The English poet Herrick expressed the same sentiment when he suggested that we should gather rosebuds while we may, Your elbow is in the butter...
...Year's Eve, the white-clad throngs gather on Brazil's beaches after dark, more than a million people in Rio alone. They bear worldly offerings-lipstick, combs, jewelry, perfume, mirrors, flowers-to give to a vain, beauteous sea goddess. Called lemanjá, she is one of the pantheon worshiped by the various devotees of the pagan cults known as Umbanda, Quimbanda, Candomble, or-to its detractors-as Macumba...