Word: ghettoes
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...crushed hopes of an oppressed people always bubbling up nonetheless through chains and cigarette smoke and broken refrigerators. These writers' best verse is narrative and pithy and stabbing, like "Miles to Go" by Marc Roberts (Diaspora's editor) which moves tightly, inexorably, raspingly, through one dismal day of a ghetto woman's life and ends...
...that left Ray Kroc's ketchup stained hands just a few weeks before the Price Commission cancelled its price rollback on the Quarter Pounder. The author's style is marred only by a few racially offensive comments, apparently made for sensational effect, such as the suggestion that the black ghetto population if denied local ownership, is "a breeding ground for revolutionary turmoil...
Meanwhile, Canfield, growing increasingly tired of his boring, upper crust wife (who Agnew writes comes from "North Philadelphia," which happens to be that city's largest black ghetto), falls for Meredith Lord, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Lord, who is beautiful as well as political ("The cloth clung to and outlined her shapely legs with every sinuous stride"), is interested in Canfield not only for his aristocratic good looks but because he can help her obtain funding for her pet program, a medical-aid bill known as THC (Total Health Care...
...intriguing aspect of the pickup in mergers and acquisitions is that black businessmen for the first time are playing a role. Until recently, many black entrepreneurs who could raise money had little experience and were forced to start their businesses from scratch in ghetto areas. As a result, the mortality rate of black-owned businesses has been high. Now, led by Manhattan's Citibank, moneymen are seeking out black entrepreneurs who have good management records and offering to finance their acquisition of successful, largely white-owned enterprises. Citibank recently helped blacks to take over a profitable Chicago margarine company...
Smith and Kaiser served identical tours in Russia from 1971 to 1974 -Smith as Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times, Kaiser as bureau chief for the Washington Post. Both were relegated to Moscow's ghetto for the foreign press. Necessarily, their accounts overlap; they frequently describe the same events-the two were the first foreign newsmen to interview Solzhenitsyn, for example-and even the same routines by Comedian Arkadi Raikin...