Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeless people seeking Government-funded medical treatment and making it a felony for people with the AIDS virus to donate blood, semen or organs knowingly. Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus has begun a direct-mail fund-raising drive on the issue. Other groups have begun lobbying on the Hill and in their communities. H. Edward Rowe, president of the Christian Mandate for America, has established the National AIDS Prevention Institute...
...Boorstin, the keen-minded Librarian of Congress who sits atop Capitol Hill and watches the drama below, talks about the "cleansing effect of Washington." The old city, given enough time, knocks common sense into cockeyed theories, rounds the corners of sharp practices, and finally forces almost every leader who is successful to heed the sound counsel of history...
...development and testing of space-based, exotic ABMs -- precisely the type of SDI system that the Reagan Administration now argues it can develop and test under its broad interpretation of the treaty. If the Administration persists in its policy, Nunn warned, it risks a "constitutional confrontation" with the Hill and a congressional "backlash" against funding...
...only thing that these four communities have in common is what motivated their creation. Each was set up as a new utopia, a new city on a hill for the people who had the vision to build them. In no other nation, FitzGerald writes, have people so confidently felt that "they can start all over again from scratch...that they can reinvent themselves." This attitude, she argues, is quintisentially American...
...introduction, FitzGerald recalls that America was founded by visionaries such as John Winthrop, who told his Puritan followers that they were creating a city on a hill and that the eyes of the world would thus be upon them. "The remarkable thing," FitzGerald concludes, "was that four centuries later Americans were still self-consciously building cities on a hill." And thanks to her, we are able ourselves to view them...