Word: gemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people flocking into the megacounties consider them a close-to- ideal blend of city and suburb. "There are few things you can't do here within an hour," says Orange County Teacher Greg Hickman. "You can head to the mountains, the desert, the water or a shopping center." Agrees Gemma Turi, a public relations consultant who switched from commuting into Los Angeles to a new job in Irvine, near her home in Newport: "It's like being on vacation except you get to live here...
...This case has everything; it has money, sex, drugs; it has Newport, New York, and Europe; has maids, butlers, and a gardener," R.I. Assistant Attorney General Henry Gemma Jr., one of two prosecutors in the case, told The Boston Globe yesterday...
...their legislative agenda has passed Congress. Reagan keeps reiterating his sympathy for their positions on "social issues"-against abortion, against busing to achieve integration, in favor of organized prayer in public schools-but he has not put the weight of his Administration behind any New Right legislation. Peter Gemma, executive director of the National Pro-Life Political Action Committee, despairs that Reagan "has been great on symbolism and excruciatingly slow on action...
Despite the internal dissent, the movement as a whole has become a very powerful political force, particularly at the state level. According to Peter Gemma, director of the National Pro-Life PAC, some $2 million was spent in the 1980 campaign by the hundred or so local and national antiabortion political action committees. But, he notes, "our real strength is in the grass-roots volunteers we can mobilize on behalf of a candidate." Says the direct mail consultant Richard Viguerie, a leading New Right strategist: "The guy who publishes the little anti-abortion newsletter in places like Iowa is very...