Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the rent strike, the reputation of the Centro de Accion (Action Center), Iglesias' organization, burgeoned. The people were angry now, and they began to notice the Centro's activities. The rat holes and broken sewer pipes in the five tenements had shocked Health Department officials so that they condemned the buildings, and the displaced families found homes which were at least a little better...
...range of topics that he has written over the years for his paper. Consequently, Royster is more reconciled to the aberrations of New York than Willie Morris, and gives some good advice: don't give up. A colleague of his, he reports, decided to trade the New York rat race for a Vermont farm. He soon "learned that paradise is an illusion. In the countryside as in the big city, he found adultery, incest, murder, fraud, brutality, stupidity, sloth, greed, hatred and bigotry...
Boyden, too, is after challenging situations. Abroad, the firm is chipping away at the fusty once-with-a-company, always-with-a-company notion of European executives. One Boyden man has been prospecting a relatively untapped resource: overseas-based U.S. managers who would not dream of returning to the rat race back home, yet might be good candidates for foreign subsidiaries of other U.S. companies...
...90th probably reached its high-water mark last week on aid to the beleaguered cities: the Senate gave President Johnson most of the money he requested for model cities and rent supplements, while the House of Representatives reversed itself to give belated approval to a two-year, $40 million rat-control measure...
...grudging approval the House gave the rat-control bill is any indication, however, both model cities and rent supplements are still in serious trouble; the House may simply refuse to split the difference with the more generous Senate, as is the usual custom. Deeply embarrassed by editorial reaction to the loutish ribaldry that accompanied the vote against the rat bill in July, some Republicans realized that they had bought themselves a huge political liability-who wants to be for rats and against children?-and welcomed a recount. But there is little indication that the House has, in fact, changed...