Word: metropolitanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could a man from the New York metropolitan area meet a woman in a Sunbelt state and find the good life in Minnesota...
...Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, for example, which includes various communities near the District of Columbia, found it could enter into a private pension plan and pay no more than it paid to Social Security, but employees could retire at age 60 instead of 65, with no loss in benefits. In San Jose, Calif., which left the system last year, city workers now contribute 3% less than they did under Social Security and enjoy benefits that average 25% higher...
Later, she explained, the metropolitan countries sought markets for their goods in the developing countries where the previous export of natural resources had created some wealth...
Bunch of Cowboys. In 1936 Abravanel sailed for New York and, armed with letters of introduction from Conductors Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwangler, got a job conducting at the Metropolitan Opera. He made his debut conducting Delibes' Lakme, starring Lily Pons. Two years later he quit to become Weill's music director on Broadway, conducting such classics as Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus...
...chancellor of the City University of New York: "Other schools have professors who have never been in politics teaching political science. We want the person who has been a politician." Hence, faculty members-most of whom are part-time and untenured -tend to be well-known personalities in the metropolitan area. New York City Consumer Affairs Expert Elinor Guggenheimer teaches a course on the consumer and the marketplace; Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff presides over a course in investigative reporting. Comedian Alan King, who got his start in New York clubs, has lectured on the origins of ethnic humor. Other...