Word: renewal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kerner report called for a "sustained and compassionate" government action in providing social programs and assistance. Two decades later it is time to heed that message. Our next president must realize that Reaganomics and the mythical "trickle-down" are but an empty dream. Our government must renew the social purpose it has abandoned during the Reagan years...
...which dream? Damon Runyon did not write stories about office workers. The would-be master builders of Times Square seem to be ignoring the lessons learned in scores of American cities during the past two decades, where downtown neighborhoods were ripped apart wholesale as a way to "renew" them. In almost every instance where a cluster of high-rise office towers replaces smaller commercial buildings, a kind of dead zone results. Street life becomes a daylight affair. "Look at 8 o'clock at night on Sixth Avenue," says Actress Colleen Dewhurst, an antidevelopment activist, alluding to the dreary wall...
...Brian Boitano and Canada's Brian Orser each skate electrifying, near perfect two- minute programs. Even Cliff Huxtable wouldn't miss tonight's head-to-head: 6.0s could be in the air. -- On tape: Swiss Downhillers Michela Figini and Maria Walliser (one-two at Sarajevo) renew their pell-mell, icy-cool rivalry...
...Ronald Reagan feverishly lobbied lawmakers to renew aid to the Nicaraguan contras last week, he found himself cast in a strange, ill-fitting role. Not so long ago, the President displayed an uncanny knack for dazzling Congressmen with his charm and righteousness, even as he squeezed painful concessions out of them. But last week the once cocky cajoler seemed humble, even desperate. To some he was a figure of pathos. "I felt almost bad for him," said Democratic Congressman Roy Dyson of Maryland, one of several lawmakers who met with Reagan in the Oval Office last week. "I remember...
...have to renew the support on the federal level that has disappeared on account of Reagan's federalism. Can [the bill] get funded in this climate of budget cutting and looming deficit? I do not know, but it sounds like a wonderful idea," O'Neill said...