Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...color film. Across the street--Elvis Presley Boulevard--there was still more. The shops that have sprung up in the past year sell everything from Elvis wastebaskets to Elvis swizzle sticks to ceramic guitars with Elvis's picture on them. And they do a brisk business, like the local florists, who were bringing in van after van of bouquets and floral arrangements, covering the grave site and spreading arrangements across the lawn, too. The flowers kept coming until they were one more marvel for the fans to photograph, until the bunches blurred together...
...mystery to most people what Proposition 13 is all about," he said in a serious tone. "It isn't just that people don't like to pay taxes, but their taxes aren't being spent coherently. State governments and local governments are terribly loose and fragmented...
McDaniel received three degrees from Harvard: A.B. magna cum laude (1893), A.M. (1894), and Ph.D. (1899). He was born in Cambridge in 1871, the son of a local lawyer, and attended the Cambridge Latin School before coming to Harvard...
Nicholas R. Carbone, Deputy Mayor and Councilman of Hartford, Conn., said that he was part of "a real old-fashioned political machine." He said political machines, though sometimes corrupt, could provide local political participation for the disadvantaged, and can act in ways that are moral but not legal...
PERHAPS THE MOST discouraging aspect of the Philadelphia fiasco was the editorial response from the local media, whose members are composed primarily of white, cautious newswriters and editors. These papers make money because of the numerous middle-class white subscribers throughout Philadelphia and its expansive suburbs. The media reflected the moral casuistry of its readership, failing to face the essential moral question that begged to be raised throughout the days surrounding the event: What is wrong with a society that causes alienated, frustrated groups of people such as the members of MOVE to arise? If our society is as perfect...