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...passed, as expected, by the city council, a higher governmental body, the measure will take effect in October 1990. It will probably cut the estimated < 195,000 cars that jam the capital daily by only 6% to 8%, but could bring in $50 million a year in revenues. After deducting enforcement costs, the remaining monies would be used to develop mass transit...
...struggling along in unpromising locations. On a typical Sunday in downtown Pasadena, Calif., for example, only 80 mostly elderly worshipers attended services at the First Congregational Church, a cavernous old citadel built to hold a thousand people. The sparsely populated pews contrast dramatically with the overflow crowds that regularly jam the ultramodern Church of the Nazarene, situated on the fast-growing outskirts of town...
...turning point seems to have been reached in 1948, in the never-before- publi shed "An April Sunday brings the snow." Larkin remembers his father, recently dead, and the plum jam preserves he had put up: "Which now you will not sit and eat./ Behind the glass, under the cellophane,/ Remains your final summer -- sweet/ And meaningless, and not to come again...
Targets are kept secret until the last minute, since Operation Rescue's tactic is to jam all entrances to an abortion clinic before the police can muster sufficient officers to begin arrests or before pro-choice activists can pre-empt the doorways and leave funnels for staff and patients to enter. Some clinics will close if they know they are going to be hit, so Operation Rescue has made appointments at a number of the clinics, relying on cancellations to tell them which targets are unavailable that day. The scouting of the sites has been thorough: there are diagrams...
...lush strings, with Askew contributing a haunting, wordless "Madame Butterfly" type aria. This segues into an instrumental, "Acropolis Now," which begins promisingly as a hybrid between '80s rock and Greek folk guitar, but it begins to maunder soon after and degenerates into a fairly close approximation of a jam session by a forgotten, early '70s band. The side closes with the title track, which reverses the problems of the opening cut; a suitably anthemic chorus is surrounded by a song about a "young boy" named "Johnny" who could "make the young girls...