Word: rayed
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Bradley supports the better-than-nothing Democratic addition of $1.45 billion to the Administration's urban-emergency-aid bill but agrees with Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, who says that even that sum represents little more than "a small down payment" toward what's necessary. "To say that you don't need a massive investment of perhaps $20 billion a year to reclaim the cities is ludicrous," says Bradley, who has his own litany of prospective family- bolstering programs. The centerpiece is a proposal that would establish a nationwide network of "15-month homes" in which poor babies and their (typically...
Director John Huston, as recalled by Ray Bradbury...
Rufo fumes when he hears the new environs derided as "glamour slammers," as they are by critics who argue that it is politically unwise to make convicts so comfortable. Explains Denver-based criminal-justice consultant Ray Nelson: "Carpeting on the floors, ceramic rather than steel toilets, coordinated uniforms, wooden cell doors are all cost-effective. Besides, amenities send a message of expectation of behavior, a message that works." Included in the concept is another reversal of conventional wisdom: a stretch in jail may actually rehabilitate. So convinced is Rufo that literacy training can reduce recidivism that he shepherded...
...AUTHOR: RAY BRADBURY...
...ORIGINAL MOBY-DICK A white Leviathan played the title role. In the 1956 film the part was taken by a large piece of plastic. In Ray Bradbury's 27th book, John Huston plays the elusive quarry...