Word: philadelphia
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...reacted to the winter plight of the homeless by opening doors that are usually shut after 5 o'clock. Washington's city council last week authorized the use of municipal buildings, including the city hall, as overnight shelters when the temperature falls to 25 degrees. Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago have taken similar action...
...bestowed. The civil rights movement from Montgomery to Memphis was an American epic, with a thousand evocations of place and name: the lunch counters of Greensboro in 1960; the "Freedom Riders" of 1961; SNCC; CORE; the March on Washington; James Meredith; Medgar Evers; Bull Connor in Birmingham; Philadelphia, Miss.; Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney . . . But race and slavery, America's original sin, came back always, and had begun to break into sporadic warfare in the Northern ghettos...
...they were injured by Robins' Dalkon Shield, a small plastic intrauterine birth-control device. Yet in the past few weeks suitors lined up as if Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia) and one foreign pharmaceutical and cosmetics house (Sanofi of Paris) made offers for Robins. As the bids proliferated, a federal bankruptcy judge gave Robins a Jan. 6 deadline to pick a suitor and file a reorganization plan...
Tung also claims that the Wharton School offered her a settlement, which sources claimed to exceed $10,000, if she would abandon her discrimination charges. Philadelphia's Equal Opportunity Commission is investigating those charges...
...City, who called the document a "grave mistake." O'Connor, a leader of the conservative, Rome-oriented wing of U.S. Catholicism and the only clergyman on President Reagan's AIDS commission, complained that it had caused "serious confusion" among Catholics and in the press. Conservative Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia and Bernard Law of Boston were among the prominent churchmen registering protests...