Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indirect Costs. Another argument met the developers head on. Do skyscrapers really benefit a city? No one denies that big buildings provide big tax revenues. Even so, recent studies show that as a city grows denser, the per capita costs of all municipal services, including administration, soar. In addition, Manufacturer Duskin contends, towers built in San Francisco since 1965 have had another city-blighting effect. They create new office jobs-but for the wrong people. He quotes a report revealing that jobs held by commuters have gone up by 23%, while jobs for city dwellers have increased by only...
...School. On the especially touchy question of school busing, the California Supreme Court has issued an ingenious opinion that may well tempt other state courts. In an indirect effort to blunt school integration, California, like many states and communities, had passed a law that banned busing of children without a parent's consent. With equal indirection, the California court upheld the busing consent regulation -but warned that school boards may, without parental agreement, still assign children to distant schools in order to achieve integration. Thus a child is no longer required to take the school bus in California...
...proposing these reforms, Gierek also launched a harsh, albeit indirect attack on his predecessor for losing touch with the people. The pre-Christmas price increases, ordered into effect with little explanation, had been "an ill-considered concept of economic policy." The new leadership, said Gierek pointedly, "will respect the principle of collective decision making and democracy in the life of the party...
...annually. Some cards now laud the joys of grass−not the kind that suburbanites mow. Others pay jovial tribute to Women's Lib: YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS AND FOR ONE THING SHE IS FAT. The themes of "love" and "youth"−perhaps as an indirect tribute to Mr. Agnew−have replaced "peace" as the most prevalent messages this year. But most cards, as always, aim at traditional sentimentality, unabashedly celebrating the permanence of that emotion in a changing world...
...money then went to Cogan (now renamed CBWL-Hayden, Stone Inc.) as a condition of the sale. "In other words," says FORTUNE, "the exchange chose to buy itself a rescue." But the tactic resulted in a curious arrangement: through the trust fund, FORTUNE notes, the exchange now holds an indirect interest in CBWL -a firm that it is supposed to regulate like any other member...