Word: ravitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything in American life stronger than vulgar materialism and mindless hedonism. Sad, in that there are few reasons to trust that in the struggle for energy, justice will prevail over selfish vested interest. But at least we'll all see ourselves for what we really are. Norman Ravitch Grenoble, France
...York's new Governor, Democrat Hugh L. Carey, brought in Richard Ravitch, a wealthy construction executive, to run the U.D.C. last month after Logue resigned. Carey last week sped a bill through the state legislature creating another public agency whose mission is to bail out the U.D.C. by buying mortgages on its uncompleted projects. The rescue effort will be costly: more than $392 million will be needed by the agency to complete the U.D.C. 's current projects...
...Richard Ravitch, 41, studied law at Yale before becoming president of his family's HRH Construction Corp., whose volume totaled $150 million last year. In addition to erecting such well-known Manhattan structures as the Whitney Museum and Gulf & Western Building, Ravitch has attacked slum housing by putting up low-rent skyscraper developments in Harlem and Lower Manhattan. A politically active liberal Democrat, he now is a director of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and the Fair Campaign Practices Committee...