Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The mission's overnight guests like to say they are passing through on their way to something better. Michael, a weasel-faced gambler who landed there after blowing his last $11,000 at craps, says he will soon be reconciled with his wife in New Jersey and on his way...
But black takeovers coincided with the deterioration of the economies of American cities, especially in the industrial areas to which many blacks had migrated from the South. Places like Cleveland and Detroit suffered a dwindling of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that had pulled generations of unskilled workers into the...
A classic battle between old and new is the one shaping up in Detroit. Last week four-term Mayor Coleman Young, 71, finished first in the city's nonpartisan primary in a campaign in which opponents hammered at Detroit's drug and crime problems. (The mayor's image was also...
The only aspect of this century-old anecdote that might be dated is Adams' surprise. This year, when Harvard sifted through 12,843 applications to fill 1,605 places in the class of '93, undoubtedly many of these would-be students (and their parents) were motivated by equally crass considerations...
But most are unlikely to be on the dole for long. Potential employers quickly descended on the camps, seeking to hire everyone from welders and machinists to carpenters, bakers and locksmiths. In the Schoppingen area near the Dutch border, there were 5,000 job proposals chasing just 1,500 refugees...