Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jaunt to New Orleans, where they hope to raise money for the Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black. The odds are long, but Poitier's hypnotic skills are considerable. Bootney flattens the champ in the first round. The boys clean...
...depends largely on its business climate, which has turned decidedly cloudy because private employers are moving out. Since 1969, when there were 3,798,000 jobs in the city, 456,000 have been lost. In part, this reflects a national trend of manufacturers escaping the high-cost, crime-ridden inner cities. Even so, New York has done next to nothing to stem the exodus. Says Savas: "City officials look upon business as a convenient cow to be milked." Until recently, the city offered few of the tax breaks or sundry inducements that other places use to attract and keep industry...
Suddenly eyes are being opened. The white parents of children being bused to previously all-black schools are now faced with the poorer educational systems in our inner cities for their own children. Funny thing-the schools were just fine when all the young faces behind those desks were black...
...that Randolph Hearst and his wife Catherine, in response to demands of the Symbionese Liberation Army, had hastily set up in an attempt to win their daughter Patty's freedom. Within a short time, Sara Jane Moore had elbowed her way into the program's inner circle, but not without leaving some bruises. "She was pushy, nosy, and wanted to take over," said the program's former director, A. Ludlow Kramer...
...Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress, Bloomfield, Cain & Jaffe...