Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building program is not the answer. "We cannot pour asphalt and concrete on the ground fast enough, and in the face of today's political and social environment, I am not sure that people would accept it," says Robert Farris, chief of the Federal Highway Administration. As a practical matter, the cost of buying up suburban houses worth at least $250,000 apiece for a right-of-way would be prohibitive...
Students' obsession with career preparation is not merely a matter of too much greed or too little imagination. "I think it's because they're more worldly," explains Frederic Schroeder, dean of students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "Students come to us now with a much wider range of experiences and a much better sense of the world through the media. It's natural that they should come with different expectations than students who came out of more sheltered environments 20 or 30 years...
...either side of the debate suggests that solutions will be easy to find. No matter what remedies are proposed or adopted, thousands will remain unemployed and unemployable, and for them the prospects are bleak. A strained federal budget may mean more cuts in benefits and greater demands on private agencies and churches to fill the gap. Mayor Koch and his followers have suggested an ad campaign listing reputable charities and government agencies where panhandlers can get help and concerned New Yorkers can send donations...
Fatah sources claim that Abu Hamam and some other recent detainees were tortured by Shin Bet and forced to reveal the names of confederates; Israeli officials deny any knowledge of the matter. So far, Shin Bet has arrested more than a dozen additional Palestinian leaders and confiscated a printing press used to churn out leaflets from the intifadeh command...
...Atlanta, where Donwen featured cutouts of Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson, she couldn't keep the Democrats away. "I was so exhausted that I ended up insulting them and raising the price, and still they bought the picture," she said. "Here, no matter how I approach them, no one will stop. They don't want to spend their money on this sort of thing. They'd rather invest it elsewhere. Like Tiffany...