Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead-end canyon of brown rock. Nestled in a crevice is the dome of a small convent, and high above, on the crest of the ravine, looms the Byzantine cupola of a monastery that, according to its lone priest, is 1,700 years old. Below is a patchwork of tiny fields where villagers grow corn, tomatoes and grapes...
...more important of high Nixon Administration officials, the programs have swallowed huge amounts of taxpayers' money but failed to put enough unemployed into productive jobs. The programs are thus prime targets for budget cutting. The President, in a letter to Congress last spring, charged that the "array of patchwork programs...is not delivering the jobs, the training and the other manpower services that this nation needs." Such opinions will be reinforced by the recent drop in unemployment, which may make training seem less urgent. The Government reported last week that the jobless rate in November fell...
Woven from Bruce's life and words, Julian Barry's play tells why by lifting the audience out of the kingdom of facile judgment that Bruce reviled--the kingdom where the tribe, clad in patchwork dashikis, determines that the man who gives it up for God is best, the man who doesn't is second best, and the man who talks about it is dirty." Barry gives us the whole brash, bitter, sex-loving, comic...
...cutback in these funds, which total $41 billion this fiscal year. If the grants are clipped appreciably, many communities might have to start raising taxes within a year or two. For all the benefits of revenue sharing, it is highly doubtful that it can effectively substitute for the patchwork of grants in meeting the nation's public needs...
...taxes are the only levies that most Americans vote on directly, and U.S. communities have been turning down increases at nearly twice the rate of five years ago. Last August, the California Supreme Court declared local property taxes unconstitutional-but for quite another reason (TIME, Sept. 13). The financial patchwork, the court said, allows communities with a high tax base to offer their children a richer education than poor communities-and to pay a smaller share of their income to do it. The quality of a child's education, said the court, should not depend on "the wealth...