Word: metropolitanism
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...Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir David McNee held out the possibility that the riot had been politically inspired. Said he: "You don't find petrol bombs and the kind of missiles that have been thrown at my officers just by chance." Indeed one sign of Britain's growing racial tension has been clashes between blacks and neofascist white organizations like the thuggish National Front. Brixton's riot did not seem to follow that disturbing model, but instead traced another pattern, one that could be copied elsewhere. As a Brixton resident gloomily put it, "Next time it might...
...editorial control in 1965 when he turned 75. He and Lila, who had no children, began giving away many of their uncondensed millions even before that. Macalester, for instance, received more than $10 million; Boscobel, a historic, early 19th century house on the Hudson, another $10 million; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art $5 million 'The dead," he said, "carry with them to he grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away." It was an appropriate comment from a man whose own publication is second in worldwide distribution only to the Bible...
...against both financial and environmental obstacles in the current effort to innovate and expand into a viable, large-scale industry. The large plant size needed for efficient production creates a significant problem for cities attempting to find a renewable outlet for their garbage: experts have estimated that only 85 metropolitan areas can generate enough waste to make a garbage-power plant feasible...
Sullivan called the figures "totally unexpected" and blamed the decreased aid on the skyrocketing costs of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the Metropolitan District Commission, and Massachusetts county government...
...DIED. Metropolitan Ireney, 88, former primate of the Orthodox Church in America, who headed its 1 million-member congregation from 1965 to 1977; of a heart attack; in New York City...