Word: marion
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...fully explain the reasoning behind the new Joy. A number of experts feel that the 1975 version, published when Gerald Ford was in the White House, has been overtaken and outdated by contemporary events. "That was the era of Linus Pauling and vitamin C and the common cold," says Marion Nestle, chairman of the department of nutrition at New York University and a Joy contributor. "Frances Moore Lappe's book Diet for a Small Planet had just come out, emphasizing the importance of balanced protein. So the nutrition content of the book in 1975 really emphasized protein, beyond all other...
...staff, many of whom got their first teaching jobs in Baltimore back in the 1960s and '70s and grew into middle age working side by side. They went to the same colleges, joined the same fraternities and sororities, and now attend the same influential churches--ties that produced what Marion Orr, assistant professor of political science at Duke University, calls a powerful "bond of personalism" that goes a long way toward explaining the reluctance of the system to fire poor performers and its resistance to reform. "There was a tacit decision made back in the early '70s that the school...
Other cities may boast of innovative, hard-bargaining mayors, but at least one urban center is clattering along in just the opposite direction. Beset by financial woes, high crime and decaying city services, Washington has now suffered the indignity of having its mayor, Marion S. Barry, stripped of nearly all power. As part of a $1 billion federal-aid package included in the new budget agreement, nine of the city's major agencies, covering everything from schools and housing to public works and the police, have been taken away from Barry and placed under the jurisdiction of a financial control...
With such things to commend him, few believed Mayor Barry when he insisted that the congressional moves were "not about Marion Barry." The mayor has turned the city into a machine that would impress Boss Tweed: jobs for all, and once hired, never fired. Money earmarked for services and repairs often found its way to payroll, to put yet more unskilled workers on the clock. Also deterring change is the racial politics of the highly segregated city. For the mostly black District residents, Barry--re-elected in 1993 despite serving jail time for crack use--promised a toehold into...
...time for him to go--is using the setback to his advantage. "Democracy has been raped," he asserts, decrying the white Republicans in Congress--particularly North Carolina Senator Lauch Faircloth--who spearheaded the takeover. Says a congressional aide: "Faircloth doesn't realize that he just became treasurer to Marion Barry's re-election campaign...