Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aides in Austin hinted that the fiscal 1968 budget might total $140 billion-an almost certain portent of higher taxes. Almost immediately, however, they began "massaging" the fat out of that figure. Come January, and-presto!-Johnson will look like a genius if he unveils a budget in the neighborhood of $130 billion instead...
Another plan they endorse would open up more internship programs during the school year "along the lines of the Neighborhood Law Office." This would blend "classwork with actual legal participation...
...seems incredibly distant when the block leader met immigrants at the dock and served as their only real protector and mediator in an alien land, or when immigrants huddled together in specific neighborhoods where they found the old customs, the old language, and relatives or friends to get them jobs. Today the U.S. receives fewer than 300,000 immigrants a year (even so, the rate is higher than that of any other nation in the world), and they still tend to seek out members of their own nationality. But for the most part, they find these in a state...
Good Humor Man. Mahoney, who was personally recruited by Simon for the chief executive's chair, seems effervescent enough for the task. A New York City native who now occupies a Park Avenue apartment scarcely a block from the old East Side neighborhood in which he was born, Mahoney began his business career as a mailroom clerk in the advertising agency of Ruthrauff & Ryan. While working at the job, he commuted to Philadelphia's Wharton School of Finance, ultimately earned both a business-school degree and an account executive's office at Ruthrauff & Ryan...
...heavy, almost ponderous, sad face brought them back. Slowly he moved from table to table, hearing praise for his mother and father, stopping to sign autographs for people of every age. He was especially careful with the little boys who always play in the cafeteria of old Jewish neighborhoods, where a cafeteria is the neighborhood tavern, club house, and fraternity all at once all day and night long...