Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whyte has read endless obituaries of the American city. He has heard it called everything from "an ecological smear" to a "behavioral sink." The future, he has been told, is elsewhere: in the suburbs, the country, anywhere but the city. Nonsense, says Whyte. "The core of the city has held. It has not gone to hell." What is more, he argues, "the city remains a magnificent place to do business, and that is part of the rediscovery of the center. While we are losing a lot of functions that we used to enjoy, we are intensifying the most important function...
Signs of America's Old West start as far east as Adair, Iowa, where an old railroad wheel marks the spot on which Jesse James held up his first moving train in 1873. Sweeping along the interstate at a sedate 65 m.p.h., a westward-bound traveler may then dally at Omaha's splendidly revitalized Old Market, which evokes gold seekers and prairie pioneers heading out aboard the Union Pacific railway circa 1865. But by the time you reach Al's Oasis at Oacoma, S. Dak., on a bluff over the glistening Missouri River, all doubt vanishes as quickly as adherence...
Unless Bloch confesses, the U.S. may never learn his motives or how much damage he may have done. And so far he has held his own remarkably well against the mass-media version of the third degree...
...voters seemed ready to embrace that message, but women still have far to go. They hold less than 2% of the seats in the lower house. In nearly a century of parliamentary government, only three women have held Cabinet posts; none do so at present. Yet women's eyes have been opened to new political opportunity. "I feel like our long-term movement has finally flowered," said Michiko Matsuura, president of the League of Women Voters of Japan...
...proposal was unveiled by Joseph D. Malone '78, who may find himself next fall running against incumbent state Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, who has held the office since 1964. Malone and radio talk show host Jerry Williams were joined by Republicans and other supporters below the Paul Revere statue in Boston's North End for a news conference announcing the proposal...