Word: metropolitanism
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...environment is seriously threatened by the prodigal garbage of the world's richest economy. In the President's own boyhood town of Whittier, a part of metropolitan Los Angeles, the once sweet air is befouled with carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country...
...these men, the sun is a much smaller white ball, and the planets number 15, not nine. They pass their time in Sully's, the Brighton Billiard Club, the Rack, Pockets and in the Boston Billiard Club--just a few of the urban oases which dot the metropolitan landscape of Boston. From unknown to acclaimed, from tiny capsules of kitsch to mammoth monsters of mahogany, these billiard halls are loaded with personality, and though they may be divided by money, by class and by style, they are united by the game, and the game never changes...
...three of the eight board seats. Grune also oversees seven foundations that, along with another, smaller, fund, now own 25 million shares (30%) of the company's nonvoting stock. They supply money directly to a few elite New York City institutions, including the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company slashed its dividend in July, these institutions were confronted by a drop in their yearly payouts from $58.7 million to $29.4 million. The funds, for instance, provided $8.2 million, or 11%, of the $75 million operating budget of the Wildlife Conservation Society...
DIED. RICHARD CASSILLY, 70, American tenor and operatic star of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s; of a cerebral hemorrhage. A pure heldentenor, Cassilly possessed a booming, heroic voice that ideally suited grand Wagnerian roles. Debuting at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1970, he sang in more than 100 performances there...
Jackson's speech also included a political viewpoint that he has expressed frequently in recent public forums: that America's inner cities are the last great economic frontier. Despite differences highlighted in metropolitan areas, Jackson insisted that the American dream is a vision all Americans share...