Word: matters
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However, because the state transferred authority for code enforcement to city governments in 1973, the state inspector, Arthur Ritacco, was powerless to issue a citation and instead had to turn the matter over to Cambridge inspectional services...
...unknown reason the matter was dropped that fall, and Ritacco never responded. The Cambridge inspector was later dismissed for unrelated reasons. Cambridge inspectional services is also under investigation for possible violations in its inspection procedures...
Jesse Jackson won in Michigan, where he drew widespread white support and beat the establishment candidate. Then came Wisconsin--more excitement, huge crowds, and whites saying that a candidate's color did not matter as long as he had something to say. But then Dukakis won, and kept on winning. The two who had the most money, the best organizations, and the least to say, found themselves on their way to the nomination...
Democracy ceases to matter when world events cease to matter, and that's the danger in the year that passed. Does something called the stock market matter to the economy when it can swing wildly with hardly any effect in the end? Does something called politics matter, if people can be elected for surviving rather than inspiring...
Another acid-tongued writer once observed in a spasm of humanity that, "It is hard to laugh at people's need for romance and beauty"--a process Wolfe has made a career of. No matter what your avocation, you should take his advice. The best way to transcend the limits society imposes is to have sympathy when there is a knock on the door...