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Both mayors agree that the social issues in the '60s which were cities' primary concern have now given way to a pressing fiscal conservatism. "Economic values overshadow every other need," says Hance. "I'm concerned with providing the climate to attract business and construction in our area--to have sufficient revenue for Phoenix needs. At the same time, I'll take a hard look at the federal programs we seek out. There is a reluctance to accept federal programs blindly. Citizens of Phoenix are not ready to funnel money to New York City. They have no disposition to bail...
...have so far spent more money than the Chinese, but the game of oneupmanship, which the Chinese probably invented, may have already been won by Peking. In Luang Prabang, the capital of figurehead King Savang Vatthana, the Chinese have promised to build a new National Assembly building that will overshadow Moscow's projected gift, a giant statue of the King...
Beginning in 1970, a series of personal tragedies began to overshadow Christina's playgirl path. First her maternal aunt, Eugenie Niarchos, wife of Ari's longtime shipping rival, Stavros Niarchos, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. The following year Christina suffered through her own first marriage, divorce and a brief stay at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. Rumors of an attempted suicide began to circulate, but were vehemently denied by her family...
Posterity's revenge on writers who overshadow it is to turn them into monuments. In the case of Edmund Wilson, the process was well under way two years ago when he died at 77-already muffled in a banner bearing the legend "Distinguished Man of Letters." But here, in The Twenties, Wilson's ghost puts in a timely appearance that should forestall too much veneration-breaking out the gin, putting a record on the Victrola and eagerly looking over every pretty flapper in the room...
...economy gets tighter and standards get more meritocratic, Harvard becomes a more and more competitive and goal-oriented place, a place where success, or the appearance of success, can easily overshadow the means by which success is accomplished...