Word: proclaimed
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While these mayors can't yet proclaim victory, the health of public education in many cities has been so lousy for so long that even modest progress gets hailed as a breakthrough. In most takeovers, city hall has delivered a fiscal and academic accountability that pulls budgets out of the red while improving, albeit modestly, overall student achievement. "Principals, teachers and administrators were there for life and couldn't be removed or forced to change," says Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. "We have shaken things up when necessary...
...risk-reward parameters I cut my teeth on are as out of date as those of my parents' generation, which saw utilities as safe, conservative growth vehicles that would leave hefty rewards for their children. They didn't. At what point, after how many new fortunes, can we proclaim the old paradigm of stock risk and bond reward as dead as the utilities-as-ultimate-wealth-generator theory? Judging by the feisty performance of the creaky old Dow, not to mention the rockin' nasdaq, shouldn't we call the financial-risk coroner come the millennium...
...proper role of government, he wrote, was to proclaim its neutrality in the moral dimensions of the debate...
...rhetoric wasn't fancy, but it was on target. The G.O.P. is a party, after all, that owes its post-Barry Goldwater resurgence to opposition to civil rights. And while its leaders from time to time proclaim their belief in racial justice, their pledges have been mostly lip service. They're too genteel for a sheet-wearing bigot like David Duke but all too willing to embrace bigotry if it's dressed in a suit...
Kevorkian, however, is the only one who has stepped forward to proclaim himself a mercy killer on national TV. A retired pathologist, he first came to prominence in 1990 when he helped a relatively healthy 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease kill herself with a suicide machine of his invention. Since then he has assisted in more than 130 suicides. "He's the Tom Paine or the Martin Luther King of our movement," says Girsh. "He's willing to break the law for the cause." But to his critics he is an unrepentant killer who harbors an unhealthy...