Word: metropolitanism
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...Ronald Reagan evoked applause on the home front by bombing Tripoli and invading Grenada. Last December Bush tried his own hand at such stuff. He busted a drug lord holed up in Panama. As a result, Manuel Noriega is now awaiting trial in a prison cell in the Miami Metropolitan Correctional Center...
...Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries," which opens to the public this week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is the biggest show of art to leave Mexico in 50 years. There is no mystery about why it is happening. Mexico has, as the flacks say, an "image problem" in the U.S.: people think of drugs and corruption. Moreover, norteamericanos in general are abysmally ignorant of Mexican culture, its immense age, its stylistic types, its myths and its rich confluences. It makes good diplomatic sense to use one to correct the other. With the Columbian quincentennial...
...students with contiguous service, the rate will increase from $10.93 a month to $13.06. The metropolitan service monthly charge will rise by almost four dollars...
...BayBanks funding comes at a time when security and clean-up for the regatta have been trown into question by the state's fiscal crisis, which is slicing into the Metropolitan District Commission's budget...
...wake of a $16 million budget cut, the MDC may lay off 400 to 600 employees, a significant number of which will be Metropolitan police officers...