Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short-term borrowing to supply municipalities and counties with aid for schools, welfare and other services. The city's troubles have also made it difficult to impossible for other hard-pressed states and municipalities to sell their notes and bonds. Such is already the case for New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and some cities, among them Yonkers, N. Y., and Buffalo...
...typical worried parent is New Jersey's state insurance commissioner James Sheeran, three of whose daughters-Vicki, 25, Jaime, 24, and Josette, 21-are Moon converts. He wants laws to protect people from "cruel and exotic entrapment of their minds, souls and bodies." Late one night last August, Sheeran decided to act when Josette, normally compassionate, showed little interest upon learning that her grandmother was in the hospital. He, his wife and a son drove to Moon's school to seek Josette. Fifteen Moon men materialized, a scuffle ensued, and state police arrived amid mutual charges of assault...
...great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries, media advisers and advertising agencies." He picked up his fond contempt for politicos from the fetid municipal air of Jersey City, where he grew up as the son of a county judge. "There were two groups of politicians there," Reeves recalls, "those who sold out and those who went to jail...
Reeves seems to enjoy thumping them too much to quit, but his book exudes a pessimism about politicians as sour as the west wind from Jersey City. Like television, McDonald's restaurants and much else in American life, Reeves laments, electoral politics nowadayses geared less toward producing quality than ensuring blandness. He sees fewer capable leaders-even fewer gifted scalawags-and more dull, "least objectionable" alternatives: more Jerry Fords. Says Reeves: "I have seen the future, and it scares the hell...
Operation Wake-Up, a White-Plains, N.Y., headquartered group, led ERA opposition in New York, while the Citizen's Committee Against ERA headed the New Jersey opponents...