Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heads whirl." L.A. is a product of explosive growth, but now the practical limits to growth are in sight. The local debate over taxes (about to go up to cover nearly $300 million in city and county budget deficits), potholes and police layoffs sounds a lot like the sober municipal agendas of New York City, Cleveland, Pittsburgh. L.A. can no longer pretend to be a surfside boom town with a job for everybody. The metropolis, in short, is maturing...
...lines of wide-eyed children at five shopping malls in Broward County, Fla., last week were not waiting for the opening of Return of the Jedi. Instead, their parents had brought them to mark a somber occasion, Missing Children Day, in sober fashion: by voluntarily getting fingerprinted. The phenomenon has swept communities throughout the nation; it has sometimes been spurred by a local tragedy, sometimes by the many articles about missing children or the recent film Without a Trace, based loosely on the disappearance in 1979 of a New York City youngster, Etan Patz. The purpose of the fingerprinting...
...deeply saddened to read S. Allen Counter's article entitled "Ultimate Hypocrisy" (5/11/1983). I expected a scholarly, sober, and mature treatment of the most pressing social issue of my generation, namely race relations. Yet after coming across words such as "closed door whispers" and "subtle fear tactics," I felt I was reading some leaflet handed out by the Separatist Youth League. How should I feel about an argument which calls its opposition "the media marionettes and their manipulators...
...Just having a program to get them into clinics is not enough. How do we keep them sober once they're out?", agreed Graham...
...Party-controlled jurists at the top of her profession. In an official 1959 book entitled The Moscow Bar, she was acclaimed as "a well-known forensic orator capable of combining deep-felt emotionalism that stirs in her hearers solicitude for the fate of the defendant with the faculty of sober, logical analysis...