Word: livings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the ostensibly-crusading Arizona Republic newspaper where Bolles worked is an integral part of the state's ruling establishment. Don Bolles gave the conservative newspaper a national reputation for muckraking it largely did not deserve, and it came as no surprise to those who live there when Arizona's only state-wide newspaper, with its stranglehold on public opinion, refused to print the IRE series brought about the murder of its own reporter. An editorial by the PhoenixGazette, owned by the same family that runs the Republic, expressed the live-and-let-live sentiments of most of Arizona...
...Negotiations, scheduled to take place at the Foreign Ministry, were shifted to Taipei's Grand Hotel when 20,000 protesters gathered in front of the ministry. Some demonstrators stomped on heaps of peanuts, yelling, "This is Carter!" One desperate taxi driver doused himself with gasoline and, shouting "Long live the Republic of China!" set himself afire in his car; he was rescued and sent to a hospital...
...architecture, the end of Modernism is particularly clear. For architecture is the social art: one looks at a painting or sculpture, but people live and work in buildings. It is the most expensive art of all and therefore the slowest to change; for once clients are used to a particular look, a standard method of construction and a conventional system of status-conferring clues, it is hard to wean any but the most adventurous away from them. Architecture is also the most visible of all arts. Buildings shape the environment; painting and sculpture only adorn it. All this has meant...
...Pope could sidestep this touchy issue by avoiding Puebla, but he has evidently never doubted the need to attend. He was guided in part by his interest in human rights and in part by the fact that some 300 million of the world's 700 million Catholics live in the region. As he observed in his Christmas address to the College of Cardinals: "Some say that the future of the church will be decided in Latin America, and there is some truth in that...
Said Nancy Burch, director of the Salem Women's Crisis Center, which had urged Greta to bring the charges in the first place: "I feel terrifically saddened by the verdict and concerned about the future of women who have to live with marital violence daily." But other feminists were more optimistic. Despite the defeat, said Noreen Connell of the National Organization for Women, "the very fact that there has been such a case" means other married women will now be less hesitant to seek legal remedy if they are sexually assaulted by their husbands...