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...associate member. Iraq was dropped after a radical leftist government came to power in 1958, and the alliance moved its headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara. The diplomats and generals who renamed the organization CENTO presumably never bothered to check the dictionary, which defines "cento" as "a patchwork of incongruous parts"?hardly the most desirable connotation for a regional military alliance...
...elevated train tracks of the Jamaica Ave. subway--the last of the rusting steel dinosaurs that once roamed all across New York's working-class neighborhoods. The El is the last remaining symbol of the era, long forgotten, when New York was a carefully-watched melting pot, a neat patchwork of ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods linked by the roaring steel subways that carried people to and from their work. Now that era is gone, destroyed as methodically as if someone had taken one of those frighteningly indiscreet air-hammers to it. And there is no work...
Touching as it does matters of love and money, health and deep feminist feeling, the question of midwifery has stirred strong argument, with more to come: an incredible patchwork of wildly inconsistent state laws now govern, ignore or tacitly condone various kinds of midwifery. Setting adequate licensing and training standards, therefore, will not be easy...
...noted, however, that "the short range issues are the crucial ones." Warner said "patchwork" modifications are being made on Boylston, Sever, Robinson, and Emerson Halls among others...
...grievously disappointed in the Carter Administration's energy plan. It fails utterly to come to grips with the energy crisis in an honest and creative manner. Instead of a bold frontal attack on this grave problem, we are offered a patchwork of hashed-over, reworked "solutions" that will merely put off a little longer the day of reckoning. We are betraying our children...