Word: messe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard and the other colleges mess up the city and don't pay any taxes. They put nothing back for the poor people. We ain't got no place to go," says Elder who also says that he blames Harvard and MIT for making rents unaffordable. Elder adds, "They buy up all the land and make money off it. Then they kick us poor out 'cause the rent's too high...
...defined and perhaps unknown quantities, radiation in the air, soil and water can, of course, be deadly. Some of its forms may persist for many centuries. As federal officials and fiercely independent private contractors finally step out of the nuclear closet and seek vast sums to clean up the mess they have created, repair aging facilities or build new ones, they face an unfamiliar challenge. Only candor and a new determination to give public safety priority over arms production can win the support they need...
...operatives, and the distinction between work and play seems to have vanished. Possible, says Callenbach, when people have freed themselves from large corporations and from cars and TV -- what he * calls "isolating technologies." Americans, he complains, have become a nation of emotionally detached creatures. "Humans like to play and mess around, and yet we are trying to live in the lockstep mode of modern society. No other species would put up with having to sit at a desk all day. And yet here we are trying to live according to bizarre economic and institutional social rules that seem to contradict...
COVER: Supersecret U. S. bombmakers produce a dangerous mess that imperils the well- being of Americans...
...handsome mayor Henry Cisneros of San Antonio. So high had his star risen during four much admired terms in office that in 1984 Cisneros was considered a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate. But last week the mayor, 41, took a dive off his pedestal into the sort of public mess that swallowed up Gary Hart. Cisneros confessed, in an off-the-record interview with columnist Paul Thompson, published by the San Antonio Express-News, that he has been entangled in a two-year love affair with a 39-year-old married campaign worker, Linda Medlar. Said Medlar, wife...